Conference QRCA 2021

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The awards to QRCA outstanding papers is sponsored by:

Qualitative Research and Critical Accounting (QRCA) Conference & Consortium:
Building a network for QRCA in Latin America

Jointly Organized by

Critical Perspectives on Accounting – Elsevier

GENERAS – Universidade de São Paulo

INTERGES – Universidad Nacional de Colombia

OGA – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

One of the main objectives of the conference and graduate consortium is to join efforts with local initiatives to promote and stimulate the production of Qualitative Research and Critical Accounting (QRCA), in the Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries of Latin America. Another ambition is to help establish significant bridges between Latin American researchers committed to QRCA, and other international academic communities working on those topics.

The QRCA initiative does not intend to provide magical recipes on how to engage with research and publish it in an academic journal. That being said, it is realistic for participants to expect several potential benefits, among them:

Raising participants’ awareness that they are not alone in doing qualitative research and that there is a growing community of QRCA researchers in Latin America. The conference may allow participants to extend their network of support.
Allowing participants to extend their network in the growing community of QRCA researchers in Latin America.
Exposing participants to in-depth discussions surrounding the evaluation criteria of interpretive and critical research.
Having the opportunity to present working papers to an audience made up of qualitative researchers, and to receive constructive feedback from this audience.
Being involved in discussions on challenges and opportunities in publishing QRCA papers in international journals that are receptive to this kind of research.
Being involved in discussions on how to make research in Latin American settings of interest to an international audience.

In addition, participants will be invited to enroll in a social network platform in order to connect with community members with similar perspectives. Network members may offer feedback on ongoing projects, and be contacted for future collaboration.

Note that the authors of the most promising papers may be invited, informally, to submit their work to Critical Perspectives on Accounting once they have taken into account the comments received at the conference.

Venue:

As a result of the pandemic, the “2021 Qualitative Research and Critical Accounting (QRCA) Conference & Consortium: Building a network for QRCA in Latin America” will adopt a virtual format. Details regarding the virtual activities will be available in the coming months.

The Graduate Consortium will take place on November 4-5, 2021.
The QRCA Conference will be held from November 16-18, 2021.

Relevant Deadlines and Dates:

Key Dates and Deadlines

June 1, 2021

August 29, 2021

October 1st, 2021

August 1 – October 15, 2021

November 4-5, 2021

November 16-18, 2021

Start of submissions

End of submissions

Communication of decisions

Registration (online)

Graduate Virtual Consortium

2021 QRCA Virtual Conference

Information Contact:

Email: qrcalatinamerica@gmail.com

(Please state in your email subject a reference to QRCA 2021 – [your topic]).

Submissions:

To submit your paper or consortium proposal visit the webpage: http://www.qrca-net.org

Submission Guidelines:

Any scholar or researcher committed to QRCA is invited to submit to the conference – as long as the study is qualitative, reflective of the critical or interpretive paradigm of social research.

Full Paper Presentations: Authors can submit papers of up to 20,000 words (Microsoft Word file). Fairly advanced papers will be considered. Ph.D. students whose thesis is near completion may also submit a full paper.
Working Papers: Authors can submit working papers or extended abstracts – up to 5,000 words (Microsoft Word file). The conference organizers expect to receive materials that are not completed but that present a high degree of originality.
Graduate Consortium: graduate students (Ph.D. and Research Master) can submit a 2,000-word summary of their thesis or dissertation proposal (file in Microsoft Word format), specifying at which stage is their Ph.D. or Master.

Language for submissions: Note that given its international flavor, submissions to the QRCA conference & consortium may be written in Portuguese, Spanish, English, or French. If the paper is accepted, the organizing committee recommends that the slides for the presentation be prepared in English, to increase comments from the international audience. The languages spoken during the conference & consortium will be Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English.

Broad Topics of Interest to QRCA 2021:

(NOTE: the list is not exhaustive, just illustrative)

Accounting in times of Covid-19 and post-crisis
Corporate governance and the range of inequalities it engenders
Critical accounting historical studies
Critical environmental accounting and extinction accounting
Economics, education and financial issues in environmental accounting
Critical issues on public accounting, accountability, and governance
Critical pedagogies and education practices in accounting
A critical view of the accounting curriculum in Latin America: challenges and proposals
Critical studies in taxation
CSR and sustainability accounting roles in promoting discourses, images, and practices
Emancipatory initiatives in the accounting and management areas
Frontstage versus backstage in social and environmental initiatives in Latin America
Indigenous, native, and local knowledge in/from/to Latin America
Interface of critical accounting and critical management studies in Latin America
International organizations impact in Latin American context
Issues on neoliberalism, totalitarianism, and democracy in Latin America
Large accounting firms in Latin America and “Glocalization”
Political economy of accounting, control, and regulation
Possibilities for subaltern voices in accounting
Power, discourse, and strategy in conglomerates or economic groups
Philosophical and ethical perspectives in accounting research
Taking stock of interpretive and critical accounting research in Latin America
The role of accounting in perpetuating class, gender, racial and ethnic inequalities
Diversity, inclusion and exclusion in accounting practices
The role of accounting numbers in political debates
The role of accounting and auditing in fighting/masking corruption

QRCA Netwotk Organizing Committees:

Advisory Board

Danny García Callejas	Universidad de Antioquia, CO	danny.garcia@udea.edu.co
Fernanda Filgueiras Sauerbronn	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR	fernanda.sauerbronn@facc.ufrj.br
Mary A. Vera-Colina	Universidad Nacional de Colombia, CO	maaveraco@unal.edu.co
Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova	Universidade de São Paulo, BR	silvianova@usp.br
Yves Gendron	Universidad Laval, Ciudad de Quebec, QC	yves.gendron@fsa.ulaval.ca

Conference Program Organization

Danny García Callejas	Universidad de Antioquia, CO.	danny.garcia@udea.edu.co
Douglas Ribeiro	Universidade de São Paulo, BR	dtoribeiro@usp.br
Elisabeth de Oliveira Vendramin	Univ. Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, BR	elisabeth.vendramin@ufms.br
Fernanda Filgueiras Sauerbronn	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR	fernanda.sauerbronn@facc.ufrj.br
Ruth Alejandra Patino Jacinto	Universidad Nacional de Colombia, CO	rapatinoj@unal.edu.co
Thauan Felipe Carvalho	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR	thauanfelipe@ufrj.br

Keynote Sessions Organization

Mary A. Vera-Colina	Universidad Nacional de Colombia, CO	maaveraco@unal.edu.co
Paula Andrea Navarro Pérez	Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores e Universidad Nacional de Colombia, CO	panavarrop@libertadores.edu.co
Yves Gendron	Universidad Laval, Ciudad de Quebec, QC	yves.gendron@fsa.ulaval.ca

Graduate Consortium

Elizabeth Oviedo	Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, CO	Elizabeth.Oviedo@campusucc.edu.co
Sanjay Lanka	Fundação Getulio Vargas, BR	sanjay.lanka@fgv.br
Sandra María Silva	Univ. Estadual Feira de Santana e FAT, BR	sandraam@uefs.br
Zuray Andrea Melgarejo Molina	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	zamelgarejomo@unal.edu.co
Mary A. Vera-Colina	Universidad Nacional de Colombia, CO	maaveraco@unal.edu.co

Communication & Integration

João Paulo Resende de Lima	Universidade de São Paulo, BR	jprlima@usp.br
Hugo Macías Cardona	Universidad de Medellín, CO	hmacias@udem.edu.co

QRCA Webinars

Carmen Alejandra Ocampo Salazar	Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, CO	cocampo2@eafit.edu.co
Douglas Tadeu de Oliveira Ribeiro	Universidade de São Paulo, BR	dtoribeiro@usp.br
Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova	Universidade de São Paulo, BR	silvianova@usp.br
Ana Carolina Oliveira Rodrigues Costa	Generas/USP	anacarolina.orc@gmail.com