Metal Beyond Metal 1: Too Much Metal
Souciant
Publication Date: November 29, 2013
Theme: Metal Beyond Metal
Category: 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!
Antisemitism hasn’t gone away. We must find a way to talk about it
The Guardian
An EU survey of Jews suggests that antisemitism is still a serious problem. Yet polarised shrillness will probably reign
Publication Date: November 8, 2013
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journalism and essays
Book review: The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust, By Noam Chayut, trans. Tal Haran What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?, By David Harris-Gershon
The Independent
Two brave memoirs reach out across the barriers that divide the peoples of Israel and Palestine
Publication Date: October 11, 2013
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Book reviews
Review: Beyond the Two State Solution: A Jewish Political Essay by Yehouda Shenhav
European Judaism 46(2), 147-148
Publication Date: 2013
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Book reviews
Jewish Journal of Sociology 55(1-2) 2013
Edited by and with an introduction by Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: 2013
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Edited issues and publications
Faster for the master
New Humanist
More than 30 years after it started, is Christian metal still a thriving underground scene or a decaying corpse? Keith Kahn-Harris goes looking for signs of life amongst the devout undead
Publication Date: May 24, 2013
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Religion
Category: Journalism and essays
Metal Beyond Metal: What Happens Next?
Keynote paper presented at the 'Heavy Metal and Popular Culture' conference, April 4-7 2013, Bowling Green University
Publication Date: April 5, 2013
Theme: Metal Beyond Metal, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Conference papers and lectures
Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match
The Guardian
Oppressive regimes such as China hate metal for its transgressive freedom; a metal-influenced album is a wise move
Publication Date: March 11, 2013
Theme: Culture, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
Institution of Chief Rabbi Has Outlived Its Usefulness
The Forward
Publication Date: February 10, 2013
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Extraordinary Alderney
Jewish Chronicle
Keith Kahn-Harris loved getting lost on the tiny Channel Island
Publication Date: February 1, 2013
Theme: Miscellaneous, Small worlds
Category: Journalism and essays
The new chief rabbi and archbishop face strikingly similar problems
The Guardian
Ephraim Mirvis can't stem the authority leaching from the chief rabbi's job – established synagogues and churches are outdated
Publication Date: December 19, 2012
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Religion
Category: Journalism and essays
Metal Multiculturalism
Souciant
Review of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal by Laina Dawes
Publication Date: December 5, 2012
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Why the UK Jewish Community Supported Operation Pillar of Defence
Jewish Quarterly
Publication Date: Winter 2012
Theme: Community, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
In times of crisis, UK Jews return to public support for Israel
New Statesman
The diversity of views that has developed has been temporarily obscured by Operation Pillar of Defence
Publication Date: November 23, 2012
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Review of ‘The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg: Chapter One’
Souciant
Review by Danielle Sottosanti
Publication Date: October 24, 2012
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
Iranian and Israeli activists should form a new alliance for peace (Co-authored with Shirin Barghi and Joel Schalit)
The Guardian
As conflict between Israel and Iran looms, interfaith and community activists in the UK could build an anti-war coalition
Publication Date: October 17, 2012
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Chapter One
The succesfully crowdfunded first chapter of the book 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Tales of Big Fish in Small Ponds', published by Unbound.
Publication Date: 2012
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
What is a secular Jew?
New Humanist
It was Jews who were the first to test-drive secularism, says Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: September 13, 2012
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays