Citation
Dourado, J.R.d.S. (2023), "Mourning", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 36 No. 5, pp. 1470-1470. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-06-2023-197
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited
A pain!
A pain that brings anguish in all presences
Unaccepted presences
Invisible presences
Presences that cost to be a presence.
What brought me here? The Accounting Sciences
Accounting: which were numbers, cash books, balance sheets, journals, consolidations…
Where I sustained myself financially and distressingly…
How to change?
By practicing teaching – a teaching presence, a teaching that meets Paulo Freire and bell hooks,
A teaching that struggles to make a difference! There is difference!
A struggle to present – a relationship with practice, a dialogical relationship…
The academic environment describes this as praxis – they gave it a name, for the struggle to perform.
I reinvent myself to stay alive.
To keep going,
To continue living in moments that I still don't understand:
what, in fact, they call welcoming….
about selectivity…
about absences…
about impacted lives…
about intact lives…
about lives that are crossed… and continue…
Struggle for me is a verb, here in the periphery, survival is chaotic.
I use the verb struggle in every moment that I am
in a classroom,
in a meeting,
in a collegiate,
in a conversation with my students,
in the moment I breathe and discover that I am alive in Accounting.