David CARTER

David CARTER is an Adjunct Professor at the Canberra Business School, University of Canberra, and holds a visiting affiliation with the Universidade de São Paulo. His research spans transdisciplinary domains, focusing on the politics of information in legal, political, and corporate contexts, with a particular emphasis on accounting metrics, regulation, and sustainability.

• Research Lead, Canberra Business School
• Visiting Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (since 2014)

His work interrogates the apolitical framing of information, exploring its ontological and methodological implications through post-structural theory (e.g., Laclau, Hardt, Lazzarato) and post-colonial literatures. Key themes include:

• Governance and Regulation: Analyzing public-private partnerships, infrastructure finance, and privatization.
• Discourse of Capital: Critiquing neoliberal economic practices and accountability frameworks.
• Health and Inclusion: Investigating workplace inclusion narratives via case studies like coeliac disease.

Notable research outputs include analyses of corruption in privatization, social return on investment, and self-accountability practices. He is actively involved in public policy debates, such as the 2020 Australian public auditing regulation hearings.