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Linda Sandberg

I have a PhD in Geography and work as an associate professor. I do research on spaces’ of gendered fear of violence, intersections of race and gender, and planning for safe urban environments.

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

E-mail
linda.sandberg@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 69 40

Works as

Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Geography
Location
Samhällsvetarhuset, Plan 2 & 3 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå
Är vi redo för döden?: tillgången på  begravningsmark och beredskapsplanering i Sverige
Nyckeln till Svenska kyrkan: en skrift om organisation, verksamhet och ekonomi, Uppsala: Svenska kyrkan 2025 : 7-28
Kolhäger, Elin; Marjavaara, Roger; Sandberg, Linda
Provocative spatial exclusion and missed opportunities: complaints of discrimination filed against gender separatist spaces in Sweden
The European Journal of Women's Studies, Sage Publications 2024, Vol. 31, (4) : 510-526
Linander, Ida; Sandberg, Linda
Trygga digitala rum: bortom debatten om triggervarningar och cancel culture
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, Ämnesföreningen för genusvetenskap 2024, Vol. 44, (3) : 75-98
Lauri, Johanna; Sandberg, Linda; Helander, Disa
Integrating the immigrant the Swedish way? Understandings of citizenship and integration in Swedish local civic integration projects
Journal of Intercultural Studies, Routledge 2023, Vol. 44, (4) : 553-569
Hudson, Christine; Sandberg, Linda; Sundström, Kristin
Ruralt flyktingmottagande – En (ny) strategi för mindre kommuners överlevnad?
Umeå Working Papers in Political Science, 2022:1
Hudson, Christine; Giritli-Nygren, Katarina; Jarnkvist, Karin; et al.
Between Central Control and Local Autonomy: The Changing Role of Swedish Municipalities in the Implementation of Migration Policies
Local Integration of Migrants Policy: European Experiences and Challenges, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2021 : 11-34
Hudson, Christine; Giritli-Nygren, Katarina; Lidén, Gustav; et al.
Contested hope for the future: Rural refugee reception as municipal survival?
Journal of Rural Studies, Amsterdam: Elsevier 2021, Vol. 82 : 121-129
Hudson, Christine; Sandberg, Linda
Governing safety through the politics of community?: A governmentality analysis of the practice of 'safety walks' in three Swedish cities
Space & Polity, Routledge 2021, Vol. 25, (1) : 1-19
Brandén, Jennie; Sandberg, Linda
"Cities in Fear": Media Representations of Single Repeat Perpetrators and Gendered and Racialized Fear of Violence in Public Space
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Centre for Social Spatial & Economic Justice, University of British Columbia 2020, Vol. 19, (2) : 519-544
Sandberg, Linda
"City in Fear": Media Representations of Single Repeat Perpetrators and Gendered and Racialized Fear of Violence in Public Space
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, ACME Geography Editorial Collective 2020, Vol. 19, (2) : 519-544
Sandberg, Linda
Inledning: (o)tryggt
(O)tryggt?: texter om makt, plats och motstånd, Premiss förlag 2020 : 6-19
Rönnblom, Malin; Linander, Ida; Sandberg, Linda
När nazisterna stjäl ens plats: om NMR:s hotfulla närvaro i Almedalen och Ludvika
(O)tryggt?: Texter om makt, plats och motstånd, Stockholm: Premiss förlag 2020 : 297-322
Linander, Ida; Sandberg, Linda
(O)tryggt?: texter om makt, plats och motstånd
Premiss förlag 2020
Rönnblom, Malin; Linander, Ida; Sandberg, Linda
Patrullering för trygghet: vakter, nattvandrare och medborgargarden
(O)tryggt?: Texter om makt, plats och motstånd, Premiss förlag 2020 : 75-98
Brandén, Jennie; Olsson, Josefin; Sandberg, Linda
Rädd och osynlig vs. orädd och protesterande: om Tantens plats i det offentliga rummet
(O)tryggt?: texter om makt, plats och motstånd, Premiss förlag 2020 : 278-296
Sandberg, Linda; Hudson, Chris
Taking back the Swedish night: making and reclaiming space
Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Routledge 2020, Vol. 27, (7) : 1044-1062
Sandberg, Linda; Coe, Anna-Britt
Gender beliefs as a dimension of tactical choice: the 'Take Back the Night' march in Sweden
Social Movement Studies, Routledge 2019, Vol. 18, (5) : 622-638
Coe, Anna-Britt; Sandberg, Linda
Narrating the gender-equal city: doing gender-equality in the swedish european capital of culture umeå2014
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press 2019, Vol. 11, (1) : 30-52
Hudson, Christine; Sandberg, Linda
Respectable subjects in 'The Social Garden': processes of inclusion and exclusion in Umeå's planning and preparation to become ECOC 2014
Narrating otherness in Poland and Sweden: European heritage as a discourse of inclusion and exclusion, Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing Group 2019 : 77-97
Hudson, Christine; Sandberg, Linda; Schmauch, Ulrika
A place for culture? Building an Alternative House of Culture in the context of the 2014 European Capital of Culture in Umeå, Sweden
Participations, Vol. 15, (2) : 170-188
Hudson, Christine; Sandberg, Linda; Schmauch, Ulrika
Görandet av den jämställda staden: Projektpolitikens förändringspotential
Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Fahlbeckska stiftelsen 2017, Vol. 119, (3) : 413-439
Rönnblom, Malin; Sandberg, Linda
Rädsla och trygghet i ord och handling
Umeå: Umeå universitet 2017
Sandberg, Linda; Brandén, Jennie; Rönnblom, Malin; et al.
The co-creation (of) culture?: The case of Umeå, European Capital of Culture 2014
European Planning Studies, Routledge 2017, Vol. 25, (9) : 1538-1555
Hudson, Christine; Sandberg, Linda; Schmauch, Ulrika
Imagining the ideal city, planning the gender-equal city in Umeå, Sweden
Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Routledge 2016, Vol. 23, (12) : 1750-1762
Sandberg, Linda; Rönnblom, Malin
Planning the new city: emotional reaction and positions
EMOTION SPACE AND SOCIETY, Vol. 21 : 50-57
Sandberg, Linda; Rönnblom, Malin
Den nödvändiga jämställdheten
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, Vol. 36, (3) : 57-82
Rönnblom, Malin; Sandberg, Linda
‘I don’t think we’ll ever be finished with this’: Fear and safety in policy and practice
Urban Studies, Vol. 52, (14) : 2664-2679
Sandberg, Linda; Rönnblom, Malin
Stories of lifestyle mobility: representing self and place in the search for the 'good life'
Social & cultural geography (Print), Vol. 16, (3) : 351-370
Åkerlund, Ulrika; Sandberg, Linda
Afraid and restricted vs bold and equal: women’s fear of violence and gender equality discourses in Sweden
The European Journal of Women's Studies, London: Sage Publications 2013, Vol. 20, (2) : 189-203
Sandberg, Linda; Rönnblom, Malin
Fear and Loathing in Umeå - Gendered Bodies and Actual Imprints of the Haga Man
NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Taylor & Francis 2013, Vol. 21, (2) : 108-122
Sandberg, Linda
“It was entirely his fault”: constructing white masculinities and the Haga man assaults in Umeå, Sweden 1998-2006
Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Routledge 2013, Vol. 20, (2) : 178-194
Sandberg, Linda
Fear of violence and gendered power relations: Responses to threat in public space in Sweden
GERUM, 2011:3
Sandberg, Linda
Talking about fear of violence in public space: Female and male narratives about threatening situations in Umeå, Sweden
Social & cultural geography (Print), Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group 2010, Vol. 11, (1) : 1-15
Sandberg, Linda; Tollefsen, Aina
Kwetsbare vrouwen en beschermende mannen (Vulnerable women and men protective men)
AGORA Tijdschrift voor sociaal-ruimtelijke vraagstukken, Vol. 4
Sandberg, Linda
Den goda platsen: Platsanknytning och flyttningsbeslut bland unga vuxna i Sverige
GERUM, 2005:2
Malmberg, Gunnar; Sandberg, Linda; Westin, Kerstin
Rädslans restriktioner: En studie av kvinnors rädsla i Umeå
CERUM Working Paper, 45
Sandberg, Linda
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Research projects

1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022
Separatist spaces/Safe spaces
1 January 2014 until 31 December 2018
Fear and safety in policy and practice - overcoming paradoxes in public planning
1 January 2012 until 31 December 2014
The perfect city 2.0