Lecture 3: Boedker, Christina and Chua, Wai Fong (2013). A study of circulation, agency and entrancement

Question 1

Is this study interpretive or critical?

Answer 1

Interpretive

Question 2

What is the article researching? What is unique with this one compared to prior studies?

Answer 2

The paper addresses the relationship between accounting, affect and action.

Previous studies have addressed “accounting in action”

But have not addressed “the role of emotions in this process

Question 3

What is the main theory? and the main point of including the theory?

Answer 3

Affect as emotional energy in circulation

Main point: Emotions are relevant to address in the analysis of accounting and action

Question 4

Describe affect

Answer 4

Affect = ​​affect is collective, circulation across between individuals, bodies and material entities.

Affect occurs between bodies

Question 5

What are the main findings?

Answer 5

Emotions drive strategizing

Accounting drives emotions

Question 6

Describe: Accounting is an “affective technology”

Answer 6

It has the potential to draw actors into ambiguous relationships and seduce people to collaborate in their own subordination

Question 7

Describe: Accounting as affect engineering

Answer 7

Accounting is a means through which people arousal levels and emotions can be moulded and managed

Question 8

Describe: How accounting was highly successful in regard to affect.

Answer 8

Accounting was highly successful at stimulating peoples desires and luring them into action in hopes that imagined futures would become real.