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!
Metal music, developed in the sixties and seventies, is notorious for its dark and disturbing imagery and its aggressive sound. But there's nothing to be afraid of, says sociologist and fan Keith Kahn-Harris: it's all part of the mythmaking of metal.
Publication Date: January 1, 2017
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book reviews, Interviews
Publication Date: November 25, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Metal Music and Culture, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: November 17, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
It is how texts are read, not texts themselves that determine meaning. Applying this post-modernist lesson to the Chakrabarti and Home Affairs Committee antisemitism reports yields new political possibilities.
Publication Date: November 3, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journalism and essays
Democracy promotion by the west has been a grubby, hypocritical affair. Is there any hope for doing it properly?
Publication Date: October 30, 2016
Theme: Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: October 17, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: October 13, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Reports and policy papers
A ‘unified’ Labour party should not mean a uniform one, where people of certain faiths or views are marginalised
Publication Date: September 27, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: August 1, 2016
Theme: Community, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book chapters
Publication Date: June 30, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: June 10, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journalism and essays
Universities are the centre of some of the fiercest political and cultural battles of our times. Is the tone of that debate important?
[Essay Review of: Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom (Haymarket Books) by Steven Salaita]
Publication Date: Summer 2016
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Politics
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Publication Date: May 18, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Reports and policy papers
Publication Date: May 5, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
These antisemitism controversies aren’t just about antisemitism. They underline the challenge of how we live cordially together in a multicultural society
Publication Date: April 28, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Discusses Dov Waxman's book 'Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel'
Publication Date: April 12, 2016
Theme: Community, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
I am grateful to Niall W.R. Scott and Tom O’Boyle for taking my ideas seriously and engaging with their implications. As they recognize, my keynote at the 2013 conference, together with the selection of essays that followed it (Kahn-Harris, 2013; 2014), was intended to be a provocation and a stimulus to debate. While Niall and Tom take issue with some of my arguments, their piece is very much in the spirit of what I was aiming for. In some ways, Niall, Tom, and I are very much on the same page. In the final part of my series of essays, I suggest the concept of ‘Metal beyond Metal’ (Kahn-Harris, 2013g). This refers to taking metalness beyond the confines of what we currently understand as metal. Metalness here connotes the following:
It refers to something that is hard, intractable and resilient. It refers to something that is defiant, inexhaustible and unashamed. To be metal is to be unafraid to explore darkness and transgression, but to do it in such a way that one retains one’s sense of selfhood. To be metal is to possess a certain ebullient wit and playfulness that those outside metal often mistake for crassness. To be metal is to value fellowship, to commit to supporting and celebrating the bonds between like-minded people. (2013g)
I don’t know if Niall and Tom would necessarily sign up to this particular articulation of metalness, but I think we are reaching for the same thing: a future in which metal reaches out simultaneously in myriad different ( Deleuzian) directions at once. I found myself both excited and moved by the passionate way in which they uphold the possibilities of a transgressive and radical metal future. Yet, although I am struck by the similarities between our respective projects, I think there are significant and revealing differences in our relationship to metal today. Niall and Tom point out that my works to which they are responding are ‘not filled with empirical data to support his claims’ but I want to argue that, in fact, my piece is more grounded in an analysis of contemporary metal culture than may at first be apparent.
Publication Date: April 8, 2016
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book chapters
Publication Date: January 13, 2016
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book chapters
