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"Debt to Society: Accounting for Gender and Sexuality Studies" - Prof. Miranda Joseph

This talk examines how the production of academic knowledge is shaped by practices of accounting and discourses of accountability that constitute and distribute social and financial credits and debts. Rather than rejecting accounting as a regime of abstraction that inevitably devalues interdisciplinary scholarship in gender and sexuality studies, Joseph proposes a methodology of critical abstraction in order to suggest that there are openings for intervention and the development of alternate accounts.