ABSTRACT
Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach, this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and global political problems. When a social system has external elements imposed upon it, or presented to it, political problems are likely to emerge. This book demonstrates that what is needed are connecting social elements with a natural affinity to bring people together despite their differences.
This book is different from others in the field. It provides new insights by critiquing the extant understandings of accountability and expands the possibilities by building on Charles Taylor’s philosophies. Central to the argument of the book are perspectives on authenticity and expressivism which are found to provide a radical reworking of our understanding of being in the world, and a starting point for rethinking the way individuals and communities ought to be dealing politically with accountability and ecological crises. The argument builds to an accountability perspective that utilises work from interpretivism, liberalism, and postmodern theory.
The book will be of interest to researchers in environmental philosophy, critical perspectives on accounting, corporate governance, corporate social reporting, and environmental accounting.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
part I|107 pages
Critical accountability
chapter 1|13 pages
Key themes in accountability research
chapter 2|16 pages
The art of interpretation and Nature 1
chapter 3|25 pages
Markets, the business case, and interpretivism
chapter 5|13 pages
The public sphere, corporations, and society 1
chapter 6|17 pages
External relations
part II|81 pages
Philosophical perspectives
chapter 7|18 pages
Basic concepts in accountability research
chapter 10|21 pages
Critical and radical accounting and accountability
part III|77 pages
The environment