Wards Accounting Seminar Series. "Accounting and emotions: An autobiographical study of a Latin queer diverse professional"
Published: 9 September 2024
25 September 2024. Dr Barbara Voss, University of Sheffield
Dr Barbara Voss, Sheffield University Management School
"Accounting and emotions: An autobiographical study of a Latin queer diverse professional"
Wednesday, 25 September 2024. 12:00-13:30
Room 141A, Adam Smith Business School
Abstract
In this reflexive paper, I explore the limitation of ‘the self’ from the lived experiences of a Latin queer diverse person in the accounting profession. This paper draws from a Lacanian insight of the ‘giving an account of oneself‘, considering elements of otherness, jouissance and real, imaginary and symbolic orders and a Nietzschean approach to ‘bad conscience’. Using an emotional autobiographical method reveals the influences of the other (and ‘the Other’) that have shaped the path of a professional who has more awareness the fears and guilt preventing the self from developing within a career. The paper explores how identity was shaped by the desire to be the best professional, in the absence of a material guide. It also discusses the role of the unconscious ‒ in my case, how it was the light for the transformation of the self, fuelled by the burning desire to become a confident and proud professional.
Bio
Barbara (they/she) is interested in equity. The current project is now aiming to understand the constructions of professional identities of LGBTIQ+ individuals working in the accounting profession under the bigger umbrella of diversity and inclusion project. Barbara is also interested in the ethics of business by unfolding the meanings of and for sustainability, corporate social responsibility and corruption. In the third project, Barbara is also interested in the politics of accounting and auditing regulations. All these projects employ insights from post-structural, post-feminist and post-analytical approaches by taking into account philosophers including Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan and J. Butler.
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First published: 9 September 2024
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