Who is the spokesperson for whom? Intendants, budgets and action at a distance in the Kingdom of Naples during the French decade (1806–1815)
| Autor: | Tiziana Di Cimbrini, Stefania Migliori, Augusta Consorti |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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actor-network theory
History Action at a distance (computer programming) 060106 history of social sciences media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Accounting history action at a distance Empire 050201 accounting 06 humanities and the arts Public administration Kingdom Accounting Local government Political science 0502 economics and business local government 0601 history and archaeology media_common |
| Popis: | The article uses Latour’s actor-network perspective to explore the role of accounting and the intendants (administrative officials) in integrating the Kingdom of Naples into Napoleon’s empire during the first decade of the nineteenth century. By comparing the ‘action at a distance’ network planned by the French empire and its actual ‘translation’ played by both human actors and accounting technologies, we reveal certain unintended consequences. Although the French plan assigned the main translating role to the budgets, the intendants resulted as the main players. Their role as intermediates of the budgets transmission between local and central levels of government had the greatest influence on the ‘translation’ process. This role stemmed from the need to overcome the resistance of the local governments against the French plan. The main contribution of this work is to highlight that network survival may require human actors to replace technologies in ‘translation’ processes. |
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