ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses post-representational politics as a way of thinking about the concept of accountability in social movements that work around immigration detention. Engaging with critical accounting studies, the chapter draws out how accountability coheres primarily within representational modes of organisation and comes into tension with the experimental and processual politics of post-representational activism. The chapter develops a practice-based view of accountability that centres on communication within relationships of affinity, the sensitivity to unwanted accountabilities, and the development of ways that those in detention can account for detention.
