A left response to left antisemitism: Is it too late for education?
JewThink
Publication Date: September 23, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
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!
Index, a History of the by Dennis Duncan review – a delightfully readable A to Z
The Guardian
Can a good index be compiled by computer software, or is there an art to this overlooked endeavour?
Publication Date: September 15, 2021
Theme: Language, Miscellaneous
Category: Book reviews
The Greatness Beyond: How Chaos Rising Are Breaking Metal’s Boundaries
The Quietus
Formed in 2019, the "international all-female metal collective" Chaos Rising have been slowly building up an impressive catalogue of unique collaborative works. Keith Kahn-Harris meets some of the people behind the project and argues that the model it provides has the potential to overturn some of metal’s most enduring institutions
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
Hello, Stranger by Will Buckingham review – how we find connection in a disconnected world
The Guardian
An elegant and moving exploration of what it means to connect with strangers turns into an elegy for a much-missed way of life
Publication Date: July 14, 2021
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Miscellaneous
Category: Book reviews
Keeping the show on the road
JewThink
Reflections on the lessons for the UK Jewish community of the recent conflagration in Israel/Palestine
Publication Date: May 25, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
The pro-Palestine movement is broad but it can’t be a home to antisemitism
The Guardian
Antisemitic incidents in London on the same weekend as protests underline the need for an honest reckoning
Publication Date: May 20, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Israel/Palestine, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
How the UK’s smug attitude to Eurovision anticipated Brexit
Prospect
We don’t put in the effort but still think we should be beating the Europeans
Publication Date: May 18, 2021
Theme: Music
Category: Journalism and essays
Metal and Reflexive Anti-Reflexivity
International Society for Metal Music Studies blog
Publication Date: May 17, 2021
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Academic articles & reports, Journalism and essays
A generational divide in British Jewry?
Jewish News
Publication Date: May 14, 2021
Theme: Community, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Shtisel – the unlikely TV hit about orthodox Jews
Prospect
Publication Date: April 16, 2021
Theme: Culture, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Booker’s Dozen @ Keith Kahn-Harris
The Pensive Quill
Publication Date: April 7, 2021
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Book reviews, Interviews
Così è, se vi pare L’insostenibile leggerezza dei negazionisti
L'Eco Di Bergamo, Domenica
Keith Kahn-Harris. «Sono convinti che le loro tesi siano rifiutate o derise perché troppo avanzate e controcorrente rispetto alla ricerca scientifica mainstream»
«Con il web le teorie complottiste hanno acquisito un’enorme velocità di diffusione»
Publication Date: March 28, 2021
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Interviews
Defining antisemitism – again, and again…
JewThink
A couple of new antisemitism definitions have ridden into town. Keith Kahn-Harris girds his loins.
Publication Date: March 25, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journalism and essays
Behind Closed Doors
New Humanist
Review of: Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners (Canbury Press) by Nick Duerden
Publication Date: March 16, 2021
Theme: Miscellaneous
Category: Book reviews
Into the flatlands with Professor David Miller
JewThink
Why rejecting David Miller’s antisemitism also requires rejecting the flatland he inhabits.
Publication Date: February 22, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journalism and essays
The Raw And The Half-Baked: Sepultura’s Roots At 25
The Quietus
A quarter of a century on from Roots, Keith Kahn-Harris wonders whether Sepultura’s much-vaunted album has actually left much of a legacy
Publication Date: February 15, 2021
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Is antisemitism a progressive blindspot?
Prospect
In discussions of identity politics, one group always seems left out argues a new book
Publication Date: February 4, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Politics
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Inundated with Online Antisemitism
Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism 3(1)
Publication Date: December 19, 2020
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journal articles