Dear colleagues,
Please consider submitting a proposal for our panel below. This is part of the Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference (London, 4-7 June 2020), organised by the British Academy, the British Museum, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Royal Geographical Society and SOAS University of London.
Best wishes,
Cris Shore, Professor of Anthropology and Head of Department,
Goldsmiths University of London, 34 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW
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Title: Audit, Management Consultancy and the New World Order: The new spaces and subjects of international accountancy
Short Abstract
This panel examines how international management and accountancy firms are reshaping organisations and society and the new spaces and subjects they create. We ask, how are these firms blurring boundaries between the public and private spheres, forging new global relations and defining the future?
Long Abstract
In a world where rapid change and unprecedented disruption are the new normal, we inspire confidence and empower change in all we do’ (KPMG)
Anthropologists and geographers share common concerns with understanding the processes shaping contemporary organisations and society. The Big Four international accountancy firms are key actors in these processes. Over the past decade, these firms have transformed themselves from professional auditors to management consultants working in the interstices between the private sector and the state. Operating in over 150 countries, they claim to help governments and private companies use resources more efficiently, effectively and accountably to address society’s major challenges. From a geographical perspective, these firms are pivotal in remaking economic relationships between the local and the global. From an anthropological perspective, they are creating new audit cultures and subjects of surveillance. From both perspectives they are central to the production of contemporary spaces of capitalism.
These companies promote themselves as experts in addressing major social risks and challenges, but are they becoming the problem rather than the solution? This panel asks:
* What expertise do these companies offer and how are they changing organisations and working practices?
* How are these companies blurring the boundaries between the public and private sector and redefining knowledge production?
* Whose interests do they serve?
* How important are they in defining the contours of a new world order?
We invite papers that reflect critically, empirically or theoretically on the work of international accountancy and advisory firms and their world-making activities.
Panel Organisers:
Cris Shore, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Nick Lewis, Human Geography, School of Environment, University of Auckland, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Tom Baker, Human Geography, School of Environment, University of Auckland [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future
conference will be held 4 to 7 June 2020 at the British Museum, Clore
Centre, SOAS, Senate House and Royal Geographical Society.
Please browse the full list of panels and decide where to propose your
paper https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#all. All proposals must be
made via the online form that can be found on each panel page.
Proposals should consist of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of <300
characters and an abstract of 250 words. On submission the proposal, the
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Proposals will be marked as pending until the end of the Call for papers.
Convenors will then be asked to make their decisions over the papers
proposed to their workshop by 20 January 2020 and to communicate those to
the proposers, marking them up within the login environment (Cocoa). Papers
which are neither accepted nor rejected, but marked for 'transfer', will
then be considered by the Conference Committee to see where else they might
fit in the conference programme. There is no guarantee that such papers can
be re-housed. We aim to resolve all transfers by 21 February 2020.
Now browse the full list of panels and propose a paper >>
https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography/call-for-papers
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