Exploring Scenes
In: Talkie Walkie: [jongerensubculture] 4 believers/non-believers, Acco, 2007 pp94-105.
Publication Date: December 12, 2007
Theme: Culture, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book chapters
Writings
Here you can find a record of almost all my publications – from scholarly journal articles to newspaper articles – listed with the most recent first. In most cases there is either a downloadable pdf or a link to the publication itself. You can search by publication type (academic, non-academic, book reviews etc), by theme and by keyword. Enjoy!
No conspiracy here
The Guardian
The Jewish angle on the Labour donations scandal sheds an interesting light on the party's funding mechanism, but is not evidence of a sinister cabal
Publication Date: December 6, 2007
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
How to be Left
The Guardian
Arguments within the left are often bad-tempered and devoid of nuance. Instead, a spirit of comradeship is called for
Publication Date: November 29, 2007
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
The politics of assimilation
The Guardian
Britain's chief rabbi has attracted attention with a critique of multiculturalism. But aren't his ideas a little anachronistic?
Publication Date: November 16, 2007
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Dialogue, Debate and Political Commitment
Liberal Conspiracy
Publication Date: November 16, 2007
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Dwellers and Seekers
Jewish Quarterly
Keith Kahn-Harris examines the dialectic between stability and creativity among British Jews.
Publication Date: Autumn 2007
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journal articles, Journalism and essays
The seductions of denial
Open Democracy
Publication Date: September 13, 2007
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Journalism and essays
Review: A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward
New Humanist
Publication Date: September 7, 2007
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
The Harsh Noise of Deep Thinking
Times Higher Education
Review of: Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery, Edited by William Irwin
Publication Date: June 29, 2007
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book reviews
Findings of a Mapping Study of Efforts to Combat Anti-Semitism, Racism and Xenophobia at the Local, Communal and Grassroots Levels in Europe
Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College
Report commissioned by the Rothschild Foundation Europe and surveyed and evaluates organisations and initiatives committed to activism against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism in France, Germany, the UK, Belgium, Poland, Hungary and Italy.
Publication Date: May 10, 2007
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Community, Miscellaneous
Category: Reports and policy papers
Interview: Capital and Punishment
Terrorizer issue 157
Who holds the power in the extreme metal scene? Why does extreme metal produce so many contradictions and how can such a radical artform retain such earthiness? Jonathan Selzer got the answers to these questions and more from Keith Kahn-Harris, author of the far-reaching examination of the metal scene, 'Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Interviews
Review: Music and Youth Culture by Dan Laughey
Sociology, 41(2), pp. 379-381
Publication Date: 2007
Theme: Culture, Music
Category: Book reviews
Beyond Belonging: Jewish Identities of Moderately Engaged British Jews in the UK (Co-authored with Steven M. Cohen)
In S. Cohen and B. Susser (eds) Ambivalent Jew: Charles Leibman in Memorial, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, pp67-88
My collaboration with Steven M. Cohen occurred some years before the public revelations of his repeated sexual harassment of female colleagues. Despite not knowing of his behaviour at the time, I also acknowledge that in a broader sense, abusers make others complicit precisely through their ignorance.
Publication Date: January 1, 2007
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book chapters
The Hermeneutics of Anti-Anti-Semitism
New Jewish Thought
Publication Date: 2006
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journalism and essays
Études Metal: Metal Studies: Une Bibliographe (Co-authored with Fabien Hein)
Volume! 5(2) 19-32
This first attempt at a metal studies bibliography has long ago been superseded by subsequent publications!
Publication Date: May 1, 2006
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journal articles
Review: Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament by Adam Possamai
Journal of Contemporary Religion 21(1), 126-127
Publication Date: 2006
Theme: Religion
Category: Book reviews
Preparing for the Pains of Peace
Sh'ma
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Journalism and essays
Beyond Belonging: The Jewish Identities of Moderately Engaged British Jews (Co-authored with Steven M. Cohen)
UJIA
My collaboration with Steven M. Cohen occurred some years before the public revelations of his repeated sexual harassment of female colleagues. Despite not knowing of his behaviour at the time, I also acknowledge that in a broader sense, abusers make others complicit precisely through their ignorance.
Publication Date: September 1, 2004
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Reports and policy papers