Accounting and accountability relations: colonization, genocide and Canada's first nations

Author: Neu, Dean

Source: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 13, Number 3, 2000 , pp. 268-288(21)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Abstract:

The current study starts from the premise that accounting techniques and calculations have been, and continue to be, implicated in the colonization and genocide of Canada's first nations. Relying upon previous literature concerned with governmentality, colonialism and genocide, it is proposed that accounting techniques helped to translate (neo)-colonial policies into practice with (un)intended genocidal outcomes. Through an examination of historical examples, the analyses highlight how accounting techniques helped to translate policies of conquest, annihilation, containment and assimilation into practice, with the resultant outcomes of reproductive genocide, cultural genocide and ecocide.

Keywords: Ethnic Groups; Social Accounting; Genocide; Discrimination; Canada; National Cultures

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513570010334126

Publication date: 2000-03-01