... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Professional accountants Autoethnography Accounting processes Rituals Liminality in ritual theory UK social housing Accounting has been described as a ritual activity (Chariri, 2017 ; Ezzamel, 2009 , 2012 ; Gambling, 1987), as, inter...

.... Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a collective autoethnography to make sense of the fieldwork and after-fieldwork emotions and their consequences. This autoethnography began with the three authors discovering their shared feeling of shame. Findings Building on Hochschild’s theory...