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Digital householding: calculating and moralizing domestic life through homemade spreadsheets

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  • Mateusz Halawa
  • Marta Olcoń-Kubicka

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young heterosexual middle-class couples living together in Warsaw and its suburbs, this article explores the role of their homemade accounting and budgeting spreadsheets in the manufacture of domestic economic life. We argue that such digital forms actively intervene in the representation, constitution, shaping, and performing of their respective households as calculative agencies and moralized domains. We present and analyse a case study of five couple's householding with software, and based on that analysis call for an extension of the current interest in the generative role of financial devices from markets to households.

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  • Mateusz Halawa & Marta Olcoń-Kubicka, 2018. "Digital householding: calculating and moralizing domestic life through homemade spreadsheets," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(6), pages 514-534, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:11:y:2018:i:6:p:514-534
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1486728
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    1. Juliia V. Abakumova & Halyna S. Andrushchenko & Olga O. Semchyk & Ievgeniia A. Ananieva & Roman I. Samsin, 2020. "Issues of ensuring budget security as a legal category in the digital age," RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA', FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 0(2 suppl.), pages 97-112.

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