Master's Degree Programme in Global Biopolitics
(120 ECTS)
Why did the governance of the life of populations become a central concern for modern states and what have the consequences been for life? Beginning in 2012, the University of Lapland will enable students to answer these questions by offering the first ever master's degree programme in Global Biopolitics. The University of Lapland is host to a unique community of research and teaching expertise in this area.
The programme provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the politics of ‘life’ through a training in the theories and concepts of biopolitics, as formulated by Michel Foucault and other key thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri and Roberto Esposito.
The master's degree programme in Global Biopolitics is a 2-year research-based programme. The programme will focus on the importance of biopolitics for the development of issues accross the Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and International Politics especially. The programme will examine how ‘biopolitics’ provides a distinctive way of understanding how states and other political powers have learnt to govern populations in the global era, as well as how biopolitical governance has developed in constitution of global problems.
The course will engage students in the study of a broad range of biopolitical issues, historical and contemporary, practical and theoretical, from a variety of perspectives, but with particular attention to the importance of biopolitics for problems of war, peace, violence, security, and development.
What will you learn?
Students will learn how the concept of biopolitics opens up new and distinctive perspectives for political theorists and the critique of power, naming distinct forms of power and domains of struggle, and how the concept and problem of the political is changing as a result.
The University of Lapland, located on the Arctic Circle in the city of Rovaniemi, is the perfect choice for studying in the North.
Our contemporary premises and relatively small sized campus provide students with a cosy atmosphere in which to learn, study, and relax in.
More reasons to study in Lapland
The Master's Degree Programme in Global Biopolitics (
120 ECTS) consists of major subject studies in international relations including a master's thesis (40 ECTS).
Graduates will be awarded a Master of Social Sciences (M. Soc. Sc.) degree.
To be eligible for the master's degree programme in Global Biopolitics, you must have:
| Study Period |
01.09.2012 – 30.09.2014 |
| Application Period |
1 December 2011 – 17 February 2012 |
| Student Selection Results |
26 April 2012
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| Accepting the Study Place |
By 31 July 2012 |
For further information
If you have questions concerning the studies, the admission requirements and the application process, please contact: admission(at)ulapland.fi