Oikography: homemaking through photography

Shobeiri, S.A.; Westgeest, H.F. (2025)

Book editorial

Echoing the word photography, which is a compound of phōtós (light) and graphé (writing/drawing), this book defines “oikography” (oikos + graphé) as “homemaking through photography”. Following the same logic, it considers “oikographs” as photographs whose principal function is twofold: reflecting on the idea of home and dwelling on the process of homemaking. With the concept of home at its methodological and theoretical core, Oikography aims to show how photography envisages, embodies and apperceives home as a spatial idea, regardless of whether that space is idealized or ideologized, ontologized or theorized, materialized or dematerialized, territorialized or deterritorialized, or internalized within us or externalized around us. To this end, Oikography asks: How can photography represent the lived, perceived, and conceived experiences of homemaking?

• Oikos
• Home
• Photography

• All authors: Shobeiri, S.A.; Westgeest, H.F.
• Date: 2025-07-30
• Publisher: Leiden: Leiden University Press
• ISBN (print): 9789087284695
• ISBN (electronic): 9789400605169
• Link: https://lup.nl/publications/academic-research/oikography/