The lab has three main research foci:

1) examining how the production of money becomes the object of political intervention and activism

2) analyzing debates over money in Islamic economics and finance

3) researching alternative, local, and complementary currencies

The Counter Currency Laboratory is also the repository for the archives of the Comox Valley Green Dollar, the world’s first modern local exchange trading system (LETS), which was pioneered on Vancouver Island in the 1980s. The director of the lab is the anthropologist, Daromir Rudnyckyj.

Funding is available for MA and PhD students interested in joining the Counter Currency Laboratory and pursuing graduate studies at the University of Victoria.