Precarious accounts: money, sex and power in the industrial revolution

不稳定的账户：工业革命中的金钱、性和权力

• 批准号: DP190100626
• 负责人: Prof Katie Barclay
• 金额: $ 10.53万
• 依托单位: The University of Adelaide
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP190100626
• 关键词: Precarious; accounts; money; sex; power

This project aims to provide a historical perspective on contemporary debates around the uses of self-tracking technologies. The project expects to generate new knowledge on how practices for quantifying the self relate to significant social and economic change, from the industrial revolution, through to measuring the systems of big data that now shapes the world. It does so using a case study of Gilbert Innes, a banker known for his sexual exploitation of women and obsessive book-keeping. The expected outcome is a history of how accounting shaped identity and morality in the nineteenth century. Through improving our understanding of how quantification practices shape society, this research supports their effective use today.

该项目旨在提供关于使用自我跟踪技术的当代辩论的历史视角。该项目预计将产生新的知识，了解量化自我的实践如何与重大社会和经济变化有关，从工业革命到衡量目前塑造世界的大数据系统。它使用了吉尔伯特·英尼斯的案例研究，这位银行家以对女性的性剥削和痴迷的簿记而闻名。预期的结果是一部会计如何在19世纪塑造身份和道德的历史。通过提高我们对量化实践如何塑造社会的理解，这项研究支持了它们在今天的有效使用。