'In the interests of the children': accounting in the control of Aboriginal family endowment payments

Autor:	Susan Greer
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	History Public economics Competing interests business.industry Endowment media_common.quotation_subject Social engineering (security) Accounting history Accounting Payment Economics business Citizenship media_common
Zdroj:	Accounting History. 14:166-191
ISSN:	1749-3374 1032-3732
DOI:	10.1177/1032373208098557
Popis:	This article contributes to an expanding literature concerned with the instrumentality of accounting and the consequences of its use within government—Indigenous relations. It examines a single case of how accounting was employed within the Australian state of New South Wales to manipulate the income and spending of Aboriginal women. The article explores how ccounting was integral to the control and administration of the New South Wales Family Endowment Payments; a policy intended to reconstitute Aboriginal women according to particular norms of citizenship. The article not only allows us to better understand the roles of accounting in such historical practices of social engineering, but also illustrates that the objectives for such programmes are not simple and that often they attempt to satisfy the competing interests of the social and the economic.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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