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Linda Soneryd

Position: Professor School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

Email: linda.soneryd@oru.se

Phone: +46 19 303000

Room: -

Research subject

Sociology

Research environments

Center for Environmental and Sustainability Social Science (CESSS)

About Linda Soneryd

Research

Linda Soneryd works as lecturer in sociology at Örebro University since the autumn 2022. Before this she finished her PhD in sociology (Örebro, 2002), became associate professor/docent (Stockholm, 2008) and professor of sociology (Göteborg, 2017). Soneryd’s research focus on participatory and governing practices in relation to emerging technologies and environmental issues. How is the public and concerned groups informed about ongoing plans and decision that can have environmental impact? Who are invited to contribute to discussions or planning activities? Whose interests and knowledge are seen as relevant and how are conflicts managed? Soneryd has explored these questions in relation to a range of environmental issues such as climate change, emerging technologies and infrastructure, final disposal of nuclear waste, and water management, and in relation to urban planning and housing.

Ongoing research is about initiatives to divest the pension funds from fossil fuels, and what possibilities there are for pension savers to make such decisions themselves, i.e. to opt out from investments in oil or other fossil fuels in their own savings.

Teaching

Soneryd teaches sociology, science and technology studies, and supervises bachelor and master students. She has also designed and teached PhD courses and supervised PhD students. Courses include general sociology, qualitative methods, ethnography within science and technology studies, sociology of knowledge for teachers doing their PhD’s, and sustainable development for preschool teachers. She is program director for the Personnell Work Program at Örebro University.

Collaboration

Soneryd is researcher at Score, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research and PI for the project Fossil Free Futures. Divestment across the Nordic Countries. The project gathers researchers with a background in science and technology studies, sociology and economic sociology in three Nordic countries: Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, CICERO, Center for International Climate Research, Oslo and the Technological University of Denmark, Copenhagen.

Soneryd has been guest researcher during longer stays Technische Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität, Berlin. She has also been guest professor and teached sociology at the University in Bielefeld, Germany and science and technology studies at the University of Vienna.

Research teams
Publications

Research teams

Environmental Sociology Section

Publications

Articles in journals

Bertilsson, J. & Soneryd, L. (2023). Indigenous peoples and inclusion in the green climate fund. Environmental Sociology, 9 (3), 233-242.
Soneryd, L. & Petersson, J. (2022). Defend, retreat and attack: Urban waters and valuation practices. Water Alternatives, 15 (1), 175-192.
Bogdanova, E. & Soneryd, L. (2021). Configuring Objects and Subjects of Care in Built Heritage Management: Experimenting with Storytelling as a Participatory Device in Sweden. Planning practice + research, 36 (5), 553-566.
Soneryd, L. (2021). Medborgardialog och expertstyre: deltagande som motverkar eller medverkar till teknokrati. Plan : tidskrift för planering av landsbygd och tätorter (Våren), 67-71.
Mulinari, S. , Soneryd, L. & Öhman, S. (2021). Sociologisk forskning om covid-19-pandemin: en introduktion. Sociologisk forskning, 58 (1-2), 5-14.
Soneryd, L. (2020). Expert advice in times of crisis: Transboundary risk governance and COVID-19. Toxic News (June 19).
Danielsson, E. , Liljeros, F. , Mulinari, S. & Soneryd, L. (2020). Sociologiska perspektiv på coronakrisen: Fyra sociologer om samhällets reaktion på covid-19. Sociologisk forskning, 57 (1), 67-76.
Soneryd, L. & Lindh, E. (2019). Citizen dialogue for whom? Competing rationalities in urban planning, the case of Gothenburg, Sweden. Urban Research and Practice, 12 (3), 230-246.
Ureta, S. , Flores, P. & Soneryd, L. (2019). Victimization Devices: Exploring Challenges Facing Litigation-Based Transnational Environmental Justice. Social and Legal Studies, 29 (2), 161-182.
Konopásek, Z. , Soneryd, L. & Svačina, K. (2018). Lost in Translation: Czech Dialogues by Swedish Design. Science & Technology Studies, 31 (3), 5-23.
Soneryd, L. & Wettergren, Å. (2017). How Does Climate Change Transnationalise Environmental Movement Organisations? The Case of Denmark. Global Society, 31 (1), 23-42.
Metzger, J. , Soneryd, L. & Tamm Hallström, K. (2017). ‘Power’ is that which remains to be explained: dispelling the ominous dark matter of critical planning studies. Planning Theory, 16 (2), 203-222.
Metzger, J. , Soneryd, L. & Linke, S. (2017). The legitimization of concern: A flexible framework for investigating the enactment of stakeholders in environmental planning and governance processes. Environment and planning A, 49 (11), 2517-2535.
Soneryd, L. & Wettergren, Å. (2015). Klimatförändring och emotionshantering: Institutionalisering av miljörörelsen i Danmark. Slagmark (71), 163-176.
Boström, M. , Casula Vifell, Å. , Klintman, M. , Soneryd, L. , Tamm Hallström, K. & Thedvall, R. (2015). Social sustainability requires social sustainability procedural prerequisites for reaching substantive goals. Nature and Culture, 10 (2), 131-156.
Soneryd, L. (2015). What is at stake?: Practices of linking actors, issues and scales in environmental politics. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 3 (2), 18-23.
Ifflander, H. & Soneryd, L. (2014). The relative power of environmental assessment as a governance tool: organization and the case of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 32 (2), 98-107.
Wärnbäck, A. , Soneryd, L. & Hilding-Rydevik, T. (2013). Shared practice and converging views in nuclear waste management: long-term relations between implementer and regulator in Sweden. Environment and planning A, 45 (9), 2212-2226.
Vifell, Å. C. & Soneryd, L. (2012). Organizing matters: how ‘the social dimension’ gets lost in sustainability projects. Sustainable Development, 20 (1), 18-27.
Lidskog, R. , Uggla, Y. & Soneryd, L. (2011). Making transboundary risks governable: reducing complexity, constructing spatial identity, and ascribing capabilities. Ambio, 40 (2), 111-120.
Elam, M. , Soneryd, L. & Sundqvist, G. (2010). Demonstrating safety - validating new build: the enduring template of Swedish nuclear waste management. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 7 (3), 197-210.
Lezaun, J. & Soneryd, L. (2007). Consulting citizens: Technologies of elicitation and the mobility of publics. Public Understanding of Science, 16 (3), 279-297.
Soneryd, L. (2007). Deliberations on the unknown the unsensed and the unsayable? Public protests and the development of third-generation mobile phones in Sweden. Science, Technology and Human Values, 32 (3), 287-314.
Soneryd, L. (2004). Hearing as a way of dwelling: the active sense-making of environmental risk and nuisance. Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space, 22 (5), 737-753.
Soneryd, L. (2004). Public involvement in the planning process: EIA and lessons from the Örebro airport extension, Sweden. Environmental Science and Policy, 7 (1), 59-68.
Soneryd, L. & Weldon, S. (2003). Noise and newts: public engagement in the UK and Sweden. Environmental impact assessment review, 23 (1), 17-37.
Soneryd, L. & Uggla, Y. (2000). Politics as a struggle over definition: two case studies. Environmental Science and Policy, 3 (5), 277-286.
Lidskog, R. & Soneryd, L. (2000). Transport infrastructure investment and environmental impact assessment in Sweden: public involvement or exclusion?. Environment and planning A, 32 (8), 1465-1479.

Books

Sundqvist, G. & Soneryd, L. (2019). Vetenskap och demokrati. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Soneryd, L. & Uggla, Y. (2011). (O)möjliga livsstilar: samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på individualiserat miljöansvar. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Lidskog, R. , Soneryd, L. & Uggla, Y. (2010). Transboundary risk governance (1ed.). London: Earthscan Publications Ltd. (The Earthscan Risk in Soceity Series ).

Chapters in books

Soneryd, L. (2022). Individualiserat miljöansvar och ambivalens. In: Rolf Lidskog; Erik Löfmarck, En mänsklig natur: Risker, reglering och representationer : festskrift till Ylva Uggla (pp. 89-104). Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Soneryd, L. & Sundqvist, G. (2022). Leaks and overflows: Two contrasting cases of hybrid participation in environmental governance. In: Andreas Birkbak; Irina Papazu, Democratic Situations (pp. 101-117). Manchester: Mattering Press.
Soneryd, L. & Sundqvist, G. (2019). Experter och medborgare i kunskapssamhället. In: Linda Soneryd; Göran Sundqvist, Vetenskapligt medborgarskap (pp. 17-44). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Bogdanova, E. , Lagerlöf, H. , Weichselbraun, L. & Soneryd, L. (2019). Kärnavfall, kulturarv och könsinkongruens. In: Linda Soneryd; Göran Sundqvist, Vetenskapligt medborgarskap (pp. 141-168). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Soneryd, L. & Sundqvist, G. (2019). Vetenskapen och Medborgaren. In: Linda Soneryd; Göran Sundqvist, Vetenskapligt medborgarskap (pp. 243-260). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Thörn, H. , Cassergård, C. , Soneryd, L. & Wettergren, Å. (2017). Climate action in a globalizing world: an introduction. In: Carl Cassegård; Linda Soneryd; Håkan Thörn; Åsa Wettergren, Climate action in a globalizing world: comparative perspectives on environmental movements in the global North. New York: Routledge.
Soneryd, L. & Cassegård, C. (2017). COP as a global public sphere: News media frames, movement frames, and the media standing of climate movement actors. In: Carl Cassegård; Linda Soneryd; Håkan Thörn; Åsa Wettergren, Climate action in a globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North. New York: Routledge.
Wettergren, Å. & Soneryd, L. (2017). Denmark – from a green economy toward a new eco-radicalism?. In: Carl Cassegård; Linda Soneryd; Håkan Thörn; Åsa Wettergren, Climate action in a globalizing world: comparative perspectives on environmental movements in the global North. New York: Routledge.
Thörn, H. , Cassergård, C. , Soneryd, L. & Wettergren, Å. (2017). Hegemony and environmentalist strategy: Global governance, movement mobilization and climate justice. In: Carl Cassegård; Linda Soneryd; Håkan Thörn; Åsa Wettergren, Climate action in a globalizing world: comparative perspectives on environmental movements in the global North. New York: Routledge.
Soneryd, L. (2016). Technologies of Participation and the Making of Technologized Futures. In: Jason Chilvers; Matthew Kearnes, Remaking participation: science, environment and emergent publics (pp. 144-161). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Soneryd, L. & Amelung, N. (2016). Translating Participation: Scenario Workshops and Citizens’ Juries across Situations and Contexts. In: Jan-Peter Voss; Richard Freeman, Knowing governance: the epistemic construction of political order (pp. 155-174). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Landström, C. & Soneryd, L. (2015). Feministiska vetenskaps- och teknikstudier. In: Anna Hedenus; Sofia Björk; Oksana Shmulyar Gréen, Feministiskt tänkande och sociologi: teorier, begrepp och tillämpningar (pp. 187-198). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Uggla, Y. & Soneryd, L. (2014). Ekonomi och miljö. In: Azarian, R, Daoud, A och Larsson, B, Ekonomisk sociologi: en introduktion (pp. 214-229). Stockholm: Liber.
Soneryd, L. (2010). By a stretch of the imagination: Public involvement in nuclear waste management. In: Göran Sundström; Linda Soneryd; Staffan Furusten, Organizing democracy: the construction of agency in practice (pp. 113-130). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Sundström, G. , Furusten, S. & Soneryd, L. (2010). Democracy, governance and the problem of the modern actor. In: Göran Sundström; Linda Soneryd; Staffan Furusten, Organizing democracy: the construction of agency in practice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Soneryd, L. , Furusten, S. & Sundström, G. (2010). Democratic values and the organizing of actors in governance structures. In: Göran Sundström; Linda Soneryd; Staffan Furusten, Organizing democracy: the construction of agency in practice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Soneryd, L. (2008). A traumatising transparency exercise on mobile phones and health. In: Christina Garsten; Monica Lindh de Montoya, Transparency in a new global order: unveiling organizational visions (pp. 223-240). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Soneryd, L. & Lidskog, R. (2008). Accountability, public involvement and (ir)reversibility. In: Magnus Boström; Christina Garsten, Organizing transnational accountability (pp. 194-209). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Soneryd, L. (2006). Flygplansbuller: reglering av kunskap, aktörer och ljudmiljöer. In: Karin Fernler; Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Kloka regler? kunskap i regelsamhället (pp. 133-159). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Soneryd, L. (2004). En öppen arena för samtal om miljön? Allmänhetens deltagande i MKB. In: Magnus Boström; Eva Sandstedt, Är vi på rätt väg? Studier om miljöfrågans lösning (pp. 131-148). Stockholm: Forskningsrådet Formas.
Soneryd, L. (2004). Miljökonflikter och deliberation. In: Rune Premfors; Klas Roth, Deliberativ demokrati (pp. 141-164). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Lidskog, R. & Soneryd, L. (2002). Miljökatastrofer och ansvar: Fallet Hallandsås. In: Johan Hedrén, Naturen som brytpunkt: om miljöfrågans mystifieringar, konflikter och motsägelser (pp. 188-219). Eslöv: B. Östlings bokförlag Symposion.

Collections (editor)

Soneryd, L. (ed.) & Sundqvist, G. (ed.) (2019). Vetenskapligt medborgarskap. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Cassegård, C. (ed.) , Soneryd, L. (ed.) , Thörn, H. (ed.) & Wettergren, Å. (ed.) (2017). Climate action in a globalizing world: comparative perspectives on environmental movements in the global North. New York: Routledge (Environmental politics/Routledge research in environmental politics 27).
Sundström, G. (ed.) , Soneryd, L. (ed.) & Furusten, S. (ed.) (2010). Organizing democracy: the construction of agency in practice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Soneryd, L. (2002). Environmental conflicts and deliberative solutions?: A case study of public participation in EIA in Sweden. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro universitetsbibliotek.

Manuscripts

Soneryd, L. "I thought the facts would make difference" : a case study of public involvment in EIA.

Reports

Bråkenhielm, C. , Grape, S. , Harms-Ringdahl, M. , Hilding-Rydevik, T. , Kaiserfeld, T. , Karlsson, M. , Persson, I. & Soneryd, L. (2022). Kunskapsläget på kärnavfallsområdet 2022: Samhället, tekniken och etiken. Stockholm: Regeringskansliet (Statens offentliga utredningar : SOU 2022:7).
Prutzer, M. & Soneryd, L. (2016). Samverkan och deltagande i vattenråd och vattenförvaltning. Göteborg: Havs- och vattenmyndigheten (Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management report 2016: 35).
Lidberg, M. & Soneryd, L. (2010). Representationer av tid: En studie av Power Pointbilder och slutförvar av kärnavfall. Stockholm: Stockholms universitets förlag (Scores rapportserie/Score working papers 5).
Soneryd, L. & Johansson, H. S. (2010). See for yourself! Enrolling the public in nuclear waste management. Stockholm: Stockholm centre for organizational research (Scores rapportserie/Score working papers 8).
Jonsson, P. J. , Soneryd, L. , Steinerova, L. , Sundqvist, G. , Szerszynski, B. , Wene, C. , Vojtechova, H. , Andersson, K. & et al. (2010). Towards implementation of transparency and participation in radioactive waste management programmes, ARGONA Final Summary Report.. European Commission.
Andersson, K. , Drottz Sjöberg, B. , Reynolds, L. , Serbanescu, D. , Soneryd, L. , Szerszynski, B. & Vetere, A. (2009). Comparison of Approaches to Risk Governance.. CARGO.
Elam, M. , Lidberg, M. , Soneryd, L. & Sundqvist, G. (2009). Demonstration and Dialogue: Mediation in Swedish Nuclear Waste Management. Stockholm: Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE), Stockholm University (Scores rapportserie/Score working papers 6).
Soneryd, L. & Lidskog, R. (2006). Allmänhet, expertis och deliberation: samråd om slutförvar av kärnavfall. Stockholm: Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB rapport R-06-118).