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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP190100626
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Precarious accounts: money, sex and power in the industrial revolution. 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.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2019
End Date: 12-2023
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $150,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Historical Studies | British History | Biography | Culture, Gender, Sexuality |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Understanding Europe's Past | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
