How do public spaces generate accountability and advance social equity? Stimulating the conversation, the articles in this volume explore the creation of meaning, the increasing confrontation between regulators and the community they are purported to serve, and the prevalent conflicts in seeking...

Giving voice to the marginalized, broadly defined, is the aim of this volume in its examination of social life increasingly marked by global inequality and the extension of market rationalities to all arenas. Revealing the outcome to populations, stakeholders, and the environment when policies...

Purpose – Seeks to explore the interplay of accounting and the broad social roles and contexts in which it is manifested. Design/methodology/approach – By mapping the origins of our current place in the world, a cacophony of ideas and philosophies emerge, and thus many possible trajectories...