Ere Nokkala
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General description
I am an Associate Professor in History of Social and Economic Thought. My main research interests are in aspects of the early modern history of political economy, natural law, law of nations, the freedom of the press and republicanism.
I studied history at the University of Jyväskylä, graduating with an MA in 2004. Subsequently I earned my Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence in 2010. I have held fellowships and positions at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala), University of Helsinki, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study, and the Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel).
My book From Natural Law to Political Economy: J.H.G. von Justi on State, Commerce and International Order (Open access https://www.lit-verlag.de/media/pdf/be/e5/0b/9783643910356.pdf) was published in 2019. I am the co-editor of the volumes Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective (2020) and Political Reason and the Language of Change: Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe (2023).
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of History and Ethnology, Associate Professor
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
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Research interests
This ERC-project builds on my earlier work, challenging the canonical histories written from the viewpoint of ‘classical political economy’. But it has a much wider ground-breaking nature, with a focus on practices, broader groups of agents and transnational connections including colonial experiences. In the project, I build on my previous work on German and Swedish economic and political thought but widen perspectives and add source material from textbooks to parliamentary speeches, as well as normative sources such as police ordinances and journals. Also, methodologically the project moves from more traditional intellectual history towards an approach that can be called ‘cultural intellectual history.’
I am member of the executive committee of the European Society for the History of Political Thought and co-convenor of the Online Enlightenment Club (https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/hela/research-at-hela/the-enlightenment-reading-club).
Projects as Principal investigator
- De-Centering Eighteenth-Century Political Economy: Rethinking Growth, Wealth and Welfare in the Swedish Empire
- European Commission
