Professor Lasse Lindekilde
Professor
Institution
Aarhus University
Research Area Key Words: Violent extremism; Lone-actor terrorism; Online hostility; Radicalisation; Prevention.
Contact: lindekilde@ps.au.dk
About Lasse
Lasse Lindekilde is professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute. His research is focused on political mobilization, violent radicalization and the implementation and effects of counter-terrorism policies and communication. His most recent research has focused on online political hostility and aggression, and how bystanders to such hostile behavior react. He has published more than 50 articles and book chapters in this domain. His work is interdisciplinary linking insights from political science, political sociology, criminology and social psychology. Methodologically he has published work building on both field work, survey research and experimental techniques. His research is funded by amongst others the European Commission, the MINERVA-programme and the Danish Research Council. In the fall of 2020, He received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the five-year project “Standing by: Pro-social Bystander Reactions to Online Political Hostility”.
Publications
Journal Articles
Scattered Attacks: The Collective Dynamics of Lone-Actor Terrorism (2023)
Malthaner, S., O’Connor, F. & Lindekilde L.
The Devil is in the Detail: Reconceptualizing Bystander Reactions to Online Political Hostility (2023)
Hansen, T. M., Karg, S. & L. Lindekilde
Urban Geographies of Countering Violent Extremism: Spatial Patterns in Nordic Societies (2023)
Fjellman, A-M., O. Gøtzsche-Astrup & L. Lindekilde
‘Understanding UK university academic staff attitudes towards recognizing and responding to student radicalisation (2023)
Pearce, J, Lindekilde L. & Parker D.
‘Being a Risk’ or ‘Being at Risk’: Factors Shaping Negotiation of Concerns of Radicalization within Multiagency Collaboration in the Nordic Countries (2023)
Wilchen Christensen, T., Lindekilde, L., Sivenbring, J., Bjørgo, T., Gjelsvik, I. M., Solhjell, R., Haugstvedt, H., Malmros, R. A., Kangasniem M. & Kallio H.
Trust in interagency collaboration: The role of institutional logics and hybrid professionals (2023)
Gøtzsche-Astrup, O., Lindekilde, L., Fjellman, A-M., Bjørgo, T., Kittang Solhjell, R., Haugstvedt, H., Sivenbring, J., Andersson Malmros, R., Kangasniemi, M., Moilanen, T., Magnæs, I., Wilchen Christensen, T., & Mattsson, C.
From violent lone-actor types to lone-actor grievance-fueled violence: The Aarhus University shooting as an example of multi-facetted offender motivations and context-sensitive boundaries between violence lone-actor categories (2023)
Ebbrecht, C. K. & Lindekilde L.
Grants and Projects
Standing by: Pro-social Bystander Reactions to Online Political Hostility (STANDBY)
ERC Consolidator Grant Project