Queer accounting voices: accounting academics’ oral stories

Alessandro Ghio and Theresa Hammond

Chapter 23 in Handbook of Accounting in Society, 2024, pp 328-342 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter is concerned with the opening up of accounting academia to diverse queer voices. While heteronormativity and masculinity have for a long time represented pillars of success for an accounting academic, diversity represents a growing imperative for business schools, their stakeholders, and society. Using an oral history methodology, two accounting academics, a non-binary gay junior faculty whose pronouns are they/them, and a lesbian senior faculty whose pronouns are she/her, share their experiences about the relationship between their careers, their sexualities and genders; their engagement with the queer community; and their hopes for changes. Narrative illuminates issues queer accounting academics face in their work relationships, along with examples of academic activism. This chapter contributes to further understanding the lived experiences of accounting faculty by raising awareness about marginalized queer voices. It also provides representations of accounting faculties to queer PhD students/early-career researchers outside the dominant personification of an accounting faculty.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Environment; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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