Sara Lindholm
Biographic Data
| ID | 314793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Lindholm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindholm |
| SIGNATURE | LINDHOLM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1353-3063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism
The Italian political thinker and polymath Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) was a famous proponent of what is known today as populationism, the idea of maximizing the number of people within a political community. In this article, I claim that Botero’s populationism and his other population political arguments act as early examples of what Michel Foucault calls biopolitics—the wide-ranging set of interventions used to optimize and maximize the populat…
The Governing of Life in Early Seventeenth-Century Utopias
Early modern utopian literature includes an overlooked theme that explains many of the throughlines within the genre. This common theme is the biopolitical control of the population, which implies a form of governance that optimizes life through the regulation of sex, reproduction, health, food, hygiene, habitation, and “race.” In this article I examine four early seventeenth-century utopias—Campanella’s City of the Sun, Andreae’s Christianopolis…
Luther and Biopower
In this article, we propose an alternative Foucauldian reading of Martin Luther’s thought and early Lutheranism. Michel Foucault did not mention the Reformation often, although he saw it as an amplification of pastoral power and the governing of people’s everyday lives. We aim to fill the gap in his analysis by outlining the disciplinary and biopolitical aspects in Luther and early Lutheranism. Therefore, we also contribute to the ongoing debate …
Giorgio Agamben’s Critique of the Covid-19 Response has Little to Do with Biopolitics
Giorgio Agamben claims that the aggressive coronavirus response in Italy turned the nation’s entire population into formless bare life, which was cast out from meaningful human existence through a sovereign exception. This widely criticised argument appears to stem from Agamben’s radical reinterpretation of biopolitics, a concept popularised by Michel Foucault. Although Agamben is often considered as the second most famous authority on the topic,…
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker
Thomas Hobbes's name often comes up as scholars debate the history of biopower, which regulates the biological life of individual bodies and entire populations. This article examines whether and to what extent Hobbes may be regarded as the first biopolitical philosopher. I investigate this question by performing a close reading of Hobbes's political texts and by comparing them to some of the most influential theories on biopolitics proposed by Mi…
Urban Voluntary Associations, Locality Based and Externally Induced
Both the literature on urban communities and that on local voluntary associations have focused on endogenous social processes: urban communities are seen as important loci of social integration and loca voluntary associations as aggregates of local interests spontaneusly coalescing to influence external agents. The current relevance of these perspectives, in view of the increasing scale of urban social organization, is questioned on the bais of o…
Urban Voluntary Associations, Locality Based and Externally Induced
Both the literature on urban communities and that on local voluntary associations have focused on endogenous social processes: urban communities are seen as important loci of social integration and loca voluntary associations as aggregates of local interests spontaneusly coalescing to influence external agents. The current relevance of these perspectives, in view of the increasing scale of urban social organization, is questioned on the bais of o…
Giorgio Agamben’s Critique of the Covid-19 Response has Little to Do with Biopolitics
Giorgio Agamben claims that the aggressive coronavirus response in Italy turned the nation’s entire population into formless bare life, which was cast out from meaningful human existence through a sovereign exception. This widely criticised argument appears to stem from Agamben’s radical reinterpretation of biopolitics, a concept popularised by Michel Foucault. Although Agamben is often considered as the second most famous authority on the topic,…
Urban Voluntary Associations, Locality Based and Externally Induced
Both the literature on urban communities and that on local voluntary associations have focused on endogenous social processes: urban communities are seen as important loci of social integration and loca voluntary associations as aggregates of local interests spontaneusly coalescing to influence external agents. The current relevance of these perspectives, in view of the increasing scale of urban social organization, is questioned on the bais of o…
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker
Thomas Hobbes's name often comes up as scholars debate the history of biopower, which regulates the biological life of individual bodies and entire populations. This article examines whether and to what extent Hobbes may be regarded as the first biopolitical philosopher. I investigate this question by performing a close reading of Hobbes's political texts and by comparing them to some of the most influential theories on biopolitics proposed by Mi…
Luther and Biopower
In this article, we propose an alternative Foucauldian reading of Martin Luther’s thought and early Lutheranism. Michel Foucault did not mention the Reformation often, although he saw it as an amplification of pastoral power and the governing of people’s everyday lives. We aim to fill the gap in his analysis by outlining the disciplinary and biopolitical aspects in Luther and early Lutheranism. Therefore, we also contribute to the ongoing debate …
Giorgio Agamben’s Critique of the Covid-19 Response has Little to Do with Biopolitics
Giorgio Agamben claims that the aggressive coronavirus response in Italy turned the nation’s entire population into formless bare life, which was cast out from meaningful human existence through a sovereign exception. This widely criticised argument appears to stem from Agamben’s radical reinterpretation of biopolitics, a concept popularised by Michel Foucault. Although Agamben is often considered as the second most famous authority on the topic,…
Giovanni Botero’s biopolitical populationism
The Italian political thinker and polymath Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) was a famous proponent of what is known today as populationism, the idea of maximizing the number of people within a political community. In this article, I claim that Botero’s populationism and his other population political arguments act as early examples of what Michel Foucault calls biopolitics—the wide-ranging set of interventions used to optimize and maximize the populat…
The Governing of Life in Early Seventeenth-Century Utopias
Early modern utopian literature includes an overlooked theme that explains many of the throughlines within the genre. This common theme is the biopolitical control of the population, which implies a form of governance that optimizes life through the regulation of sex, reproduction, health, food, hygiene, habitation, and “race.” In this article I examine four early seventeenth-century utopias—Campanella’s City of the Sun, Andreae’s Christianopolis…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Biopower (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works)