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About Ulf Hedetoft

Ulf Hedetoft is professor of international studies, head of the department of History, International & Social Studies at Aalborg University, and director of the Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID). His recent works include (as co-editor) The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity (Minnesota University Press, 2002); The Global Turn: nationalist encounters with the world (Aalborg University Press, 2003); The Politics of Multiple Belonging: ethnicity and nationalism in Europe and East Asia (Ashgate, 2004); and contributions to the Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory (ed. Gerard Delanty, Routledge, 2006), the Handbook of Socio-Cultural Psychology (eds Alberto Rosa & Jean Valsiner, CUP, forthcoming 2006), and National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: the Danish Experience (eds John Campbell, John A. Hall & Ove Kaj Pedersen, McGill-Queens University Press, 2006). He is in the process of co-editing a comparative volume on immigration and integration policies in Denmark and Sweden (Makadam Press, forthcoming 2006).

Articles by Ulf Hedetoft

Wednesday 1st March

Denmark's cartoon blowback

The publication of cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that has offended Muslims, cost lives and polarised emotions worldwide sprang from a particular context of Danish political and media discussion, explains Ulf Hedetoft.
Thursday 30th October

How Denmark faces immigration

In Denmark, the radical shift in recent political debate about migration and asylum is registered in language as much as in public policy. Ulf Hedetoft charts the way that a new discourse is changing the way Danes talk to each other about the strangers in their midst.
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