Weapons of the weak: subalterns' emancipatory accounting in Ceylon Tea-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Weapons of the weak: subalterns' emancipatory accounting in Ceylon Tea

Published:2009-03-27 Issue:3 Volume:22 Page:379-404
ISSN:0951-3574
Container-title:Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
language:en
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Author:

Alawattage Chandana,Wickramasinghe Danture

Abstract

PurposeThis paper aims to report on subalterns' emancipatory accounting (SEA) embedded in transformation of governance and accountability structures (GAS) in Ceylon Tea.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on James Scott's political anthropology to examine how subalterns' resistance and emancipatory accounting triggers structural transformations.FindingsAn attempt is made to theorise subaltern resistance as a form of emancipatory accounting. Concerning the commentaries that accounting has been to suppress or hegemonise the subalterns and appreciating the analysis of indigenous resistance implicated in emancipatory potential, this paper examines how a distinct subaltern group in Ceylon Tea deployed their own weapons towards the changes in GAS.Originality/valueThe accounting literature neglects how subalterns reconstruct governance and accountability structures: this paper introduces a social accounting perspective on resistance, control and structural transformations. Also, it introduces to accounting researchers James Scott's political anthropology as an alternative framework.

Publisher

Emerald

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Accounting

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