The Kinship Economy Working Group
In 2024-2025, OIKOS focuses on the ultimate medium: money.
Through reading groups, workshops, and colloquia about paperworkers, revolutionaries, and true believers, we discuss how people count, confess, and convert their deeply held values into political projects and cosmic scales. Read more.
OIKOS is an interdisciplinary working group studying kinship economy. We convene reading groups, research workshops, and lecture series about social relations and circulations of value. From classical texts on household management and civic virtue to emerging works on financial services and family firms, we generate frameworks for thinking about money, gender, and mediation beyond the economy/society divide.