Liv Sunnercrantz | University of Stavanger

Contact

Telephone: 51831634

Department

Faculty of Social Sciences

Department of Media and Social Sciences

About me

Liv Sunnercrantz has multifaceted research interests. Her main contributions relate to post-foundationalist discourse theory, rhetorical-performative analysis, and the sociology of intellectuals. She has done empirical studies on the debate on privatization in Sweden, neoliberalism, and populism in the Nordic countries. She is interested in knowledge production, practices of meaning making and implementation of post-foundational theory in empirical social research. Liv's background includes a PhD in Sociology and a MA in Gender studies from Lund University, Sweden. She studied agenda setting, interpretive privilege, hegemony, and intellectuals in her PhD project (Hegemony and the Intellectual Function: Medialised Public Discourse on Privatisation in Sweden 1988-1993, Doctoral Dissertation, Sociology, Lund University, 2017). The analysis focuses on the medialised debate on privatisation in Sweden during the crisis years of 1988 to 1993. By combining post-Marxist discourse theory and rhetorical political analysis she develops a rhetorical-performative analysis. To make sense of meaning-making struggles, dominance, and interpretative privilege in the debate - the notion of 'intellectuals' was reconceptualised through a critique of conventional perspectives and an empirically grounded analysis. By examining the processes, practices, and strategies involved, the study shows how a hegemonic struggle unfolds around the meaning of 'privatisation'. The thesis contributes to the theoretical development concerning hegemony and intellectuals. Since 2017 she has expanded her research interest into populism and populist rhetoric, particularly in the Scandinavian context- Her post-doctoral research project is located in the intersection of sociology of knowledge and science, the sociology of intellectuals and organisational sociology. It deals with issues regarding knowledge transference, mentoring, and the freedom to think in PhD education/research today. She is an engaged scholar also in the public sphere, discussing populism, neoliberalism, and changes in Swedish media and politics. Together with Hande Eslen-Ziya and other colleagues from IMS and the Centre for gender studies, she has formed the research group on Populism, Anti-Gender and Democracy Ongoing research: Pågående forskning "Researching Mentoring Relationships in Academia: How is Creativity Enabled and Fostered across Generations, Disciplines and Institutional Contexts" (Postdoc project, 2019-2022) Populism in the Nordic countries, Sweden especially.

Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Bianca Alighieri Luz Monteiro; Liv Sunnercrantz; Tevfik Murat Yildirim; Mauro Porto (2025) The Primacy of Affects in Politics: A Discourse Theoretical and Psychoanalytic Perspective on the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Election. Universitetet i Stavanger. ISBN 9788284394121.

Liv Sunnercrantz (2024) Experts and populism in the context of Covid-19. I: Yannis Stavrakakis; Giorgos Katsambekis, Research Handbook on Populism. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781800379688. s.551-562.

Liv Sunnercrantz (2023) The impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on right-wing populism in Norway. I: Gilles Ivaldi; Emilia Zankina, The impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on right-wing populism in Europe. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). ISBN 9789464755480. s.223-232. DOI: 10.55271/rp0025

Tine Sizov Handeland; Liv Sunnercrantz (2023) Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk. I: Critical Discourse Studies. ISSN 1740-5904. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2271577

Liv Sunnercrantz (2022) How Will Sweden’s Elections Change its Policy Towards the EU?. I: Brexit Institute Blog, Dublin City University.

Liv Sunnercrantz; Tevfik Murat Yildirim (2022) The role of experts in populist politics : Toward a post-foundational approach. I: Hande Eslen-Ziya; Alberta Giorgi, Populism and science in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030975357. s.43-65. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97535-7_3

Liv Sunnercrantz (2021) Hur högern vann debatten : Nyliberal hegemoni i privatiseringsfrågan. I: Göran Therborn; Daniel Suhonen; Jesper Weithz, Klass i Sverige : Ojämlikheten makten och politiken i det 21 århundradet. Arkiv Förlag. ISBN 9789179243487. s.181-201.

Emilia Palonen; Liv Sunnercrantz (2021) Nordic populists as hegemony challengers. I: Anu Koivunen; Jari Ojala; Janne Holmén, The Nordic economic social and political model : Challenges in the 21st century. Routledge. ISBN 9780367134754. s.153-176. DOI: 10.4324/9780429026690-8

Liv Sunnercrantz (2021) ‘Which side are you on – Mr. Westerberg?’ Reason, affect, and division in public debate. I: Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. ISSN 1600-910X. DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2021.1945644

Liv Sunnercrantz (2020) Vom Gegner lernen : Der anti-etatistische und nicht-nationalistische Populismus der neoliberalen Rechten in Schweden. I: Seongcheol Kim; Agridopoulos Aristotelis, Populismus Diskurs Staat. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. ISBN 9783848776900. s.167-189. DOI: 10.5771/9783748920885-167

Liv Sunnercrantz (2020) Sweden. I: Yannis Stavrakakis; Giorgos Katsambekis, Populism and the Pandemic. A Collaborative Report. POPULISMUS. s.43-45.

Liv Sunnercrantz (2017) Hegemony and the intellectual function. Lunds universitet.

Formidling

Anders Riel Müller; Sebastian Lundsteen Nielsen; Liv Sunnercrantz; Andy Lautrup (2024) Challenging Nordic Innocence: A Podcast about Social, Spatial and Environmental Justice episode 1: Introduction to the Concept of Justice.

Liv Sunnercrantz (2023) Spectres of The Climate Crisis. DISCOURSE THEORY: WAYS FORWARD, 2nd EDITION; 2023-03-23 - 2023-03-24.

Liv Sunnercrantz; Jens Kaae Fisker (2022) Spectres of the climate crisis, or, an intergenerational haunted politics. HELSINKI CONFERENCE ON EMOTIONS, POPULISM AND POLARISATION; 2022-06-15 - 2022-06-17.

Liv Sunnercrantz (2022) Towards a methodology for co-creating just transitions: a rhetorical-performative approach. From the grassroots to policy and back: Putting just transition to practice; 2022-10-28 - 2022-10-29.

Liv Sunnercrantz; Anders Hellström; Marie Cazes; Lise Lund Bjånesøy; Susi Meret (2022) Scandinavia under magnifier: Populist radical right parties and the end of Nordic exceptionalism?. Mapping European Populism – Panel #3; 2022-04-28.

Liv Sunnercrantz; Göran Ahrne; Johan Alfonsson; Sigurd Allern; Hampus Andersson; Olof Bäckman; Lovisa Broström; Mattias Börjesson; Enna Gerin; Estrada Dörner Felipe; Christer Hogstedt; Peter Jakobsson; Birgitta Jordansson; Markus Kallifatides; Linda Lane; Anders Nergaard; Magnus Nilsson; Mikael Nyberg; Elinor Odeberg; Gunnar Olofsson; Ester Pollack; Rune Romhed; Viktor Skyrman; Stefan Sjöberg; Fredrik Stiernstedt; Mikael Stigendal; Daniel Suhonen; Lotta Svensson; Göran Therborn; Mikael Vallström; Jesper Weithz; Mats Wingborg; Per-Olof Östergren (2021) Ojämlikheten fördjupas i det svenska klassamhället.

Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen; Randi Elin Gressgård; Lene Myong; Liv Åsa-Maria Sunnercrantz (2020) Ytringsfrihetens ansvarlighet: En samtale om akademia og akademikeres rolle i samfunnet. Fagforum IMS, UiS; 2020-12-02.

Liv Sunnercrantz (2020) Ideologiernas återkomst. Bokmässan / Göteborg book fair; 2020-09-27.

Source: Nasjonalt vitenarkiv