Beyond black hats and stereotypes: Jews and the visual image
Sanford St Martin Trust (blog)
Publication Date: April 7, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
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!
What we don’t know about IHRA: Practices of subversion and neglect
conflict and communication online
The debate about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism (IHRA) has generally focused on the meaning of the definition itself and the consequences of its adoption or non-adoption by institutions. Yet we know very little of how IHRA is applied in practice by institutions that adopt it. This article discusses the case of Professor David Miller of Bristol University, where the adoption of IHRA by the university did not prevent his absolution (subsequently overturned by the university) from accusations of antisemitism by one legal opinion that made reference to IHRA itself. This incident demonstrates the possibility that institutions might ‘subvert’ or simply neglect IHRA when dealing with accusations of antisemitism. This possibility is rarely mentioned by activist proponents and opponents of IHRA. There is therefore an urgent need for empirical research into the ways IHRA is understood and applied by institutions that have adopted it.
Publication Date: April 1, 2022
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journal articles
Photographs celebrate diversity of Britain’s Jewish population
Ham and High
Publication Date: April 1, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Interviews
From lockdown to Lebedev, Boris Johnson’s party addiction tells us everything
New Statesman
It's about privilege and power, not just pleasure.
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Notting Hill Editions Author Profile: Keith Kahn-Harris
Exact Editions Blog
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Interviews
Putin Comes Clean: From Denial to Invasion
The Battleground
Invasion is an act of commitment. To send troops in, to kill, to seek to dominate, is to rule out alternative courses of action, perhaps forever.
Publication Date: March 7, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
They Were Not Evil: The Loveable Raconteurs Of NWOBHM
The Quietus
Keith Kahn-Harris reviews Michael Hann’s Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and revisits his long-lost NWOBHM past
Publication Date: February 19, 2022
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
The left needs to learn from Boris Johnson’s sense of fun
New Statesman
From Corbynite purity to Starmerite self-flagellation, the left is based on a denial of its own humanity – of fun.
Publication Date: February 15, 2022
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
The pleasure in not understanding a language can be awesome
Psyche
Publication Date: January 19, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Journalism and essays
Review of ‘The Women of Rothschild’ by Natalie Livingstone
Prospect Jan-Feb 2022
Publication Date: January 1, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
New set of portraits to shine a light on British Jews in all their diversity
Jewish News
Photography initiative is response to frustration about the media's knee-jerk use of photographs of Charedim to illustrate stories about Jewish community
Publication Date: December 28, 2021
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Interviews
So who is judging YouTube?
Index on Censorship
Accused by the video behemoth of spreading misinformation, KEITH KAHN-HARRIS conducted an
experiment in an effort to understand how the social media platform polices its content
Publication Date: Winter 2021 50(4)
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Miscellaneous
Category: Journalism and essays
The Babel Message
Village Raw
In a celebration of linguistic diversity, author Keith Kahn-Harris used the lockdown to investigate the warning messages found inside Kinder Surprise Eggs
Publication Date: November 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
How a Kinder Egg led to a surprising linguistic journey
The Big Issue
Author and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris had a lockdown project that cracked the joy of languages
Publication Date: November 24, 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
I’m so obsessed with Kinder Eggs, I translated the packaging into hundreds of languages including Klingon
The iPaper
An extract from The Babel Message
Publication Date: November 16, 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Oh, the Guilt
The Battleground
Tough times for fun books.
Publication Date: November 8, 2021
Theme: Language, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Author unwraps a world of languages inside a Kinder Surprise
Ham and High
Publication Date: November 8, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Interviews
KAnon: How I Almost Became A Kinder Conspiracist
Byline Times
During lockdown, Keith Kahn-Harris discovered a strange anomaly inside Kinder Surprise Eggs, and almost began to uncover a vast corporate conspiracy…
Publication Date: November 5, 2021
Theme: Language, Miscellaneous
Category: Journalism and essays