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A journey of socialising the risks associated with global warming: a Gandhian insight into Schumacher's total accounting and accountability
Author/Creator
Saravanamuthu, Kala
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Business & Law, Newcastle Business School
Description
Scientists are constructing knowledge about global warming by adapting evidence-based disciplines to reflect the Precautionary Principle. It is equally important to communicate the complexities and uncertainties underpinning global warming because inappropriate vehicles for giving accounts could result in defensive decisions that perpetuate the business-as-usual mindset: the method of communication affects how the risk associated with global warming is socialised. Appropriately constructed accounts should facilitate reflective communicative action. Here Beck's theorisation of risk society, Luhmann's sociological theory of risk and Gandhi's vehicle of communicative action (or satyagraha) are used to construct a risk-based accountability mechanism, whilst providing insight into Schumacher's concept of total accountability. These accountability constructs will be illustrated through the lived experiences of South Australian citrus horticulturists in the context of a richly layered narrative of competing discourses about global warming. The reiterative process of theory informing practice is used to construct a couple of dialogical vehicles of accountability.
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Advances in Public Interest Accounting Vol. 14, p. 121-189
Publisher Link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S1041-7060(2009)0000014008
Date
2009
Publisher
Emerald / JAI Press
Keyword(s)
global warming;  Precautionary Principle;  accountability;  climate change
Resource Type
journal article
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http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917066
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ISSN:1041-7060
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