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Tua Sandman

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About Tua

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Tua Sandman is Senior Lecturer in War Studies, and Deputy Head of the Land Operations Division, Air Operations Division and Maritime Operations Division. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University, a Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Lund University. Prior to joining the Swedish Defence University in February 2020, Tua was a researcher at the Department of Criminology, Stockholm University, and an analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).

Areas of interest:
- Representation of war and violence
- War, memory and society
- War as emotional and sensory experience
- History and cultural studies
- Qualitative research methods
- Discourses on crime and deviance

Publications:
Sandman T 2025, "Listening in on the Congo crisis: Swedish radio and the imaginative experience of sudden war-fighting", Cold War History 25(2): 269-290
https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2024.2404832

Sandman T 2024, "Våldet som försvann". I: Hagström L (red.), Är Sverige säkert nu? Perspektiv på Nato och svensk säkerhetspolitik. Carlssons, s.161-178.
https://www.carlssonbokforlag.se/products/ar-sverige-sakert-nu-perspektiv-pa-nato-och-svensk-sakerhetspolitik

Sandman T 2024, "'The grey everyday of guard duty': tracing military boredom in field reports of Swedish military chaplains 1940–45", War & Society 43(3): 313-330
https://doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2024.2331900

Sandman T 2024, "Reconstructing the peacekeeper: the televised sense-making of Sweden’s shifting policy on the use of force after the military failure in Bosnia 1995", Journal of War & Culture Studies 17(4): 347-364
https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2023.2285133

Sandman T 2023, "The Moral Component of Fighting: Bringing Society Back In". In: Weissmann M and Nilsson N (eds.), Advanced Land Warfare: Tactics and operations. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 193-213.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857422.003.0010

Sandman T 2023, "How violence dis/appears in narratives on war-like operations: A conceptual framework", Critical Military Studies 9(3): 285-305
https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2021.1985288

Camenius R & Sandman T 2023, "Women in the Malestream Study of Crime: Exploring Three Swedish Journals throughout the Last Century", Women & Criminal Justice 33(4): 261-279
https://doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2021.1958731

Sandman T 2022, "Familiar felons: Gendered characterisations and narrative tropes in media representations of offending women 1905–2015", Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 18(2): 242-264
(By January 2024, it was the journal's most read article in the last 6 months)
https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590211005512

Sandman T 2019, "The dis/appearances of violence: When a 'peace-loving' state uses force", Stockholm studies in politics 180, PhD Thesis
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-163041
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