Circus animals and the illusion of wildness

Wilson, David A. H.

doi:10.1080/17460654.2017.1383018

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“…Within accounting, circuses have not been a popular theme for historical accounting research although Cummings and St Leon (2009) demonstrated that their study can enhance understanding of historical approaches to financial management. Outside accounting, circuses have been of research interest in historical fields of inquiry that include social history (Arrighi, 2012; Neirick, 2012), performance history (Carmeli, 2003; Fusco, 1994), entertainment history (Stoddart, 2000), management history (Beadle and Könyöt, 2006), economic history (Allen, 2010; Renoff, 2008), political history (Holmgren, 2007), military logistical history (May, 1932) and visual history (Wilson, 2017). Since these disciplines overlap, or are closely aligned with, accounting history, there may be currently unexplored opportunities to consider circuses in the context of other historical accounting research topics.…”

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Entertainment as an archival source for historical accounting research

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2020

Accounting History

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This research champions indigenous voices and epistemes in accounting history. It corrects the hegemony of the coloniser’s voice in the archive and fills the archival vacuum with indigenous voices. This research presents the case of rice accounting in Cambodia. Cambodia was devastated by half a millennium of warfare and coups destroying written archives. The archives of the French coloniser are all that survive. That archive tells the coloniser’s version of rice accounting. To challenge that version of rice accounting, this research examines the story of rice accounting found in a traditional form of Cambodian entertainment: circus performance. Circus performance is a form of archive that captures collective memory, providing an indigenous voice and episteme. This research examines how, in preserving collective memory, traditional forms of entertainment can facilitate a richer understanding of accounting history when the written indigenous archive is impaired, destroyed or has failed to recognise the indigenous voice.

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Entertainment as an archival source for historical accounting research

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2020

Accounting History

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“…Despite being amusing and deceptive, twisting the tails of wild animals and forcing them to perform in a circus was a popular form of entertainment for much of the first half of the twentieth century. Plausibly, the illusion of the popularity of wild animals as an attraction trumped the experience of merely viewing caged collections of exotic creatures (Wilson, 2017). Diverse audiences of children and adults were presumably not expected to comprehend what they were and were not seeing.…”

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“…Beginning with the posters and tickets, it appeared as though lions and tigers had recently been captured. In the ring, they would growl and scream, and the audience would be able to admire the trainer's courageous superiority over these typically wild and dangerous animals (Wilson, 2017).…”

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COVID-19: An Ontological Human Circus?

Pulla

2023

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Geopolitical and national interests predominate, given that a war between Russia and Ukraine would result in a daily economic decline in both countries. I am convinced that countries, not their people, wage wars. People have other concerns, such as food and a virus that has apparently not yet left these countries. Several plausibility arguments are presented in the first section of the paper, which addresses the persistently debated virus's origins. In contrast, its leadership continues to flounder. Numerous healthcare workers perished on the front lines, but there was scant coverage of their deaths during the first year of the pandemic and none since. The elderly, the frail elderly, and even the young are the most severely affected by the pandemic deaths that have occurred over the past two years and continue to occur. Current ontology is concerned with the controversies, hypotheses, and theories surrounding this damned insignificant RNA and its capacity to cause such catastrophic harm to humanity. Indeed, the issue is its disputed and contested origin. After two years, it appears that the graphs, countries, and news that are updated every minute on the Worldometer have not changed. However, something has changed; for example, countries have ceased to report the incidence of COVID-19 deaths.

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Animal “Entertainers” in WDAS Films

Stanton

2020

The Disneyfication of Animals

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Circus animals and the illusion of wildness

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Entertainment as an archival source for historical accounting research

Entertainment as an archival source for historical accounting research

COVID-19: An Ontological Human Circus?

Animal “Entertainers” in WDAS Films

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