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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.
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.
The book is about accountability processes and how they contribute
solutions to our current environmental and global political
problems. This book is different to other literature in this field.
This is so because the dominant accountability discourse is shaped
by what is defined as a neoliberal business case for social and
environmental reform. This book assumes a nirvana stance within
globalisation where all citizens operate within the parameters of
the free market and will recover from adverse economic and
political damage. Further this book uses neoliberalism and
free-market reforms aims as examples to implement efficient
management technologies and create more competitive pressures.
Central to the argument of the book are perspectives on
authenticity, expressivism and interpretivism which are found to
provide a radical reworking of our understanding of being in the
world. These frameworks offer a starting point for rethinking the
way individuals, businesses and communities ought to be dealing
politically with accountability and ecological crises. The argument
builds to an accountability perspective that utilises work from
expressivism, interpretivism, classical liberalism and postmodern
theory. The theoretical quest undertaken in this book is to develop
connections between accountability, democratic, ethical and
ecological perspectives.
The author uses the work of the eminent Canadian philosopher,
Charles Taylor, to develop a critique of those political
perspectives that are based on instrumental ways to reason about
the world, claiming that such perspectives invariably sever the
connections between the social and natural worlds.
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