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Accounting, recounting settler colonialism: Rania Kamla, ‘The scream and accounting scholarship: the genocide in Palestine’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 103, 2026, #102858

07May26

Abstract: The essay is a provocation from a Palestinian academic of critical accounting, calling on the field to break its silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the on-going settler-colonial project in Palestine. It frames the act of Palestinians documenting their own annihilation as a form of a “scream”. This “Palestinian scream” is both a product of settler-colonialism and an instrument of remembrance, resistance and decolonisation. While critical accounting scholarship has examined accounting’s historical complicity in war, colonialism, and genocide, such work has largely taken a historical perspective. Confronted with a live-streamed genocide, combined with significant efforts to censor speech on Palestine, I argue that critical accounting academics now face urgent tasks and duty: to engage with the Palestinian scream without dehumanising the Palestinians as helpless victims, but instead showcase their agency and resistance, and by contributing to political and scholarly efforts for decolonisation, achieving justice and accountability. The essay, therefore, poses questions around how can critical accounting scholarship, as a form of speech, respond to screams of suffering, extend their power, resonate with them and amplify them within the specific context of settler-colonialism?


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