Research Question: How is neoliberal control exercised over football fans? What is the effect of neoliberal control devices on football fans? Motivation - We draw upon Foucault's work to explore the various disciplining control devices targeting Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (PSG) fans. At a...

Purpose – To present a case for accounting and finance academics to have a more active social role. Design/methodology/approach – A range of published works by “public intellectuals” on praxis is presented. Each theorist could be considered to be an eminent theoretician in their own...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically reflect upon the use of the term accountability in the twenty‐first century and its role in “remaking the world in favour of the most powerful” using the theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Lacan. Design/methodology/approach –...

Uses the work of various women writers but most importantly the writing of Hélène Cixous, to question accounting′s role in society. Contends that accounting is masculine in the sense that it embraces all of the Western cultural male attributes. Given the masculine nature of accounting,...

Critiques article by Hammond and Oakes (1992). Emphasizes political importance of discussion of feminist empiricism for accountancy practitioners of both sexes.