Cosmos
The Centre on Social Movement Studies
Lasse Lindekilde is employed as Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Government, University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he teaches sociology and methodology. Lasse received his PhD. -degree from the European University Institute, Florence, in December 2008 for a dissertation on the reactions of Danish Muslims to the publication of the Muhammad cartoons. Currently he is doing research on radicalization prevention policies in Europe, questions of tolerance vis-à-vis political participation of minorities and migration related diversity. He has published several international journal articles and book chapters on these matters, including: “Neo-liberal Governing of ‘Radicals’: Danish Radicalization Prevention Policies and Potential iatrogenic Effects”, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 6(1)2012. “Radicalization and the Limits of Tolerance”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Online August 2012, co-authored with Lene Kühle. “How Politically Integrated are Danish Muslims? Evidence from the Muhammad Cartoons Controversy”, in Muslim Political Participation in Europe, J. S. Nielsen (ed.), Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2012. “Soft Repression and Mobilization: The case of Transnational Activism of Danish Muslims during the Cartoons Controversy”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 42(3), 2009. “Muslim Claims-making in Context: Comparing the Danish and the Swedish Muhammad Caricatures Controversies”, Ethnicities, 9(3), 2009. Co-authored with Göran Larsson, University of Göteborg. “Mobilizing in the Name of the Prophet? The Mobilization/Demobilization of Danish Muslims during the Muhammad Caricatures Controversy”, Mobilization 13(2): 219-232, 2008.
Research interests : minorities, radicalization, tolerance, political protest, preventive policies