Publications

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

Schönbauer, S. and Vermeulen, N. (submitted) Between Retrospection and Anticipation: academic, environmental and political time in marine sciences.
Schönbauer, S. (2025). How to Care for Marine Plastic Litter. Global TA and Care. TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, 34(1). Doi:10.14512/tatup.33.x.yz.
Schönbauer, S. (2024). Environmental Engagements: Marine Scientists Care for Environmental Changes. Minerva, 1-21. Doi:10.1007/s11024-024-09538-y
Schönbauer, S. & Müller, R. (2021). A risky object? How Microplastics is represented in German media. Science Communication, 43(5), 543-569. Doi:10.1177/10755470211030519.
Müller, R. & Schönbauer, S. (2020). Zero Waste–Zero Justice? Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 6, 416-420. doi:10.17351/ests2020.649
Schönbauer, S. (2020). “From bench to stage”. How life scientists’ participation in leisure groups creates caring relationships. Science as Culture, 29(4), 524-545. Doi:10.1080/09505431.2020.1713077
Schönbauer, S. (2019). We are standing together in front. How scientists and research groups form identities in the Life Sciences. Science & Technology Studies, 32(1), 60-80. Doi:10.23987/sts.65358.

PEER REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

Gesing, F., Rossmann, S., Eitel, K., Gumbert, T., Kramm, J., Schlitz, N., Schönbauer, S., Laser, S., Bergmann, S. & Idies, Y. (forthcoming 2026). Abfälle sind in Bewegung; Abfall ist Bewegung. Einleitung. In: Waste in Motion Kollektiv (eds.) Wie Abfall die Welt bewegt. Transcript.
Kramm, J., Schönbauer, S. (forthcoming 2026) Waste and Knowledge: Biographical Interviews with Waste Researchers. In: Waste in Motion Kollektiv (2026). Wie Abfall die Welt bewegt. Transcript.
Rossmann, S., Schönbauer, S. and Dey, T. (forthcoming 2026). Situated knowledge. In: Waste in Motion Kollektiv (2026). Wie Abfall die Welt bewegt. Transcript.
Laser, S., Schönbauer, S. and Gumbert, T. (forthcoming 2026). Von der Entsorgung zur Fürsorge – zu Care in Bewegung. In: Waste in Motion Kollektiv (2026). Wie Abfall die Welt bewegt. Transcript.
Schönbauer, S. (forthcoming 2026). Scientific Activism. DGS Handbook for Science and Technology Studies.
Schönbauer, S. & Pöchhacker, N. (2025). Situating Reflexivity: Coming home to STS. In: Davies, S. et al. (eds.). Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
Schönbauer, S. (2021). A passion for science. Addressing the role of emotions in identities of life scientists. In: Kastenhofer, K. & Molyneux-Hodgson, S. (eds.). Communities and Identities in Contemporary Technosciences. Social Science Yearbook, 283-301. Dordrecht: Springer. Doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61728-8_14.
Schönbauer, S. (2017). How biologists meet. In: Jonas, M. et al. (eds.): Practice theories and their methodology. Reflecting on research practices, 221-34. Dordrecht: Springer International. Doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52897-7_15.

DISCUSSION PAPERS, REPORTS, COMMENTS

Schönbauer, S. (2022). Editorial on Waste. EASST Review. 41(3): 4-5.
Knoop, O., (…), Schönbauer, S. et al. (2021). Final report: Tracking von (Sub)Mikroplastik unterschiedlicher Identität – Innovative Analysetools für die toxikologische und prozesstechnische Bewertung. Reports from Water Systems Engineering. TU Munich. Report booklet 223. https://webarchiv.typo3.tum.de/TUM/wasser-submuetrack/fileadmin/w00cbe/sww/pdf/SubuTrack_Schlussbericht.pdf
Müller, R., Schönbauer, S., Decker, T. et al (2020). Plastik in der Umwelt: Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Discussion paper from BMBF-funded consortium “Plastics in the Environment”.
Schönbauer, S. & Bergmann, S. (2019). Microplastics by other means? How “microplastics” can be a tool for inter/trans-disciplinary engagement. Marine Coastal Cultures.
Schönbauer, S. & Attenborough, R. (2018). Scientific identities: How to re-engage with identity and its politics. EASST review, 37(4), 37-40.

EDITORSHIPS

Waste in Motion Kollektiv (2026). Wie Abfall die Welt bewegt. Transcript.