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Jesper Meijling
Division of History
of Science and Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
(SE) 100 44 Stockholm
meijling@kth.se
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Jesper Meijling is an architect and a former public radio editor, working towards a PhD in history at the Division of History of Science and Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Jesper holds an M.Arch from the KTH and specialised in the intersection of urban planning, spatial theory and economic forecasting. His research was later published as Påståenden om framtiden (Axl Books, 2008 - ‘Claims on the future’). As an editor at Sveriges Radio, he has been involved mainly in the production of debates, politics and economy. He was awarded a ‘great scholarship’ and spent the initial period of his doctoral research at the Swedish Institute of Rome.
In his research, Jesper treats the 'market' concept by attempting a new reading of its intellectual history, mainly within two historical fields of new thought concerning markets and market models: the late 20th and the late 18th centuries. The study object of the latter are the porto franco constitutions and port cities, originating in the 16th and 17th centuries, which are investigated as a wider and qualitatively different source material to the history and conception of market theory. A ‘situational’ perspective is explored. It is then contrasted with the typical approaches of mainstream economics. This situational perspective is derived mainly from science and technology studies and spatial-configurational theory. It is expected to capture how the porto franco constitution works as a tool for organising and synthesising the phenomena we now commonly call ‘market properties’ (i.e, orders of movement, migration, citizenship and subject hood, legality and illegality, relations between individuals and state, religion and society, freedom of conscience, and economic freedom).
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