Global forces and accountability once again converge in this volume, illustrating the significant and multifaceted nature of the role of accounting in societies. The accounting discipline in its numbers, its silences, its privileging of select classifications over others, it is continually constructing knowledge, cultivates meaning, and impacts public policy in the intersection of socio-political-economic realms. The research in this volume responds to calls for examining accounting as an interdisciplinary role in neoliberal governance by examining migration, race, gender, class and the creation of the 'other'. Each paper uniquely contributes toward significantly exploring accounting's role in disenfranchising populations while identifying participants actualized and potential role in emancipatory struggles. By recognizing marginalized groups embedded power rather than casting them as victims, the authors reject an inevitability of widening inequalities and forms of violence to world populations. Rather these critical accounting researchers seriously tackle the task of transformation, providing pathways for thinking differently and aspiring for change.

Lehman presents readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles dealing with issues of accountability and globalization as they impact the field of accounting and accounting research. The five selections that make up the main body of the text are devoted to the accounting logic in Europe’s agenda for migration, the plight of afro-descendent women in political spaces, gender research as a cultural encounter in accounting, unshackling accounting in prisons, and a critical race theory discussion of neutrality and colorblindness in accounting. The editor is a faculty member of Hofstra University in New York. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *

Cheryl R. Lehman, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA