My recommendations for Five Books on Heavy Metal

Five Books on Heavy Metal…

3 recent articles

Branding Jews exotic in LSE Religion and the Public Sphere blog, 7 November 2016

The antisemitism reports: Against a zero-sum reading in Open Democracy, 3 November 2016

Better off siding with Russia or China: There’s no dictator’s dilemma today in …

New article on antisemitism in the Labour Party

Why the matter of Jewish Labour members is a vital test case in The Guardian, 27 September 2017…

Chakrabarti inquiry into antisemitism in the Labour Party

In the run up to the Chakrabarti Inquiry, I submitted this document for consideration. I reacted to the report’s publication in this Guardian article.…

Some recent articles

Does civility in politics matter? in The New Humanist, summer 2016

The elephant in the room in Labour’s antisemitism row in The Guardian, 28 April 2016

Is Split Over Israel a Luxury Restricted to Countries With No Anti-Semitism? in The …

New essay on my experiences as a sociologist working (partially) outside of academia

The Pleasures, Pain and Promise of Sociological Work Outside the Academy in The Sociological Imagination, 10 December 2015…

Tags: publications

New article

Being civil doesn’t mean remaining silent in Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 October 2015…

New talk online

‘Exploring new frontiers in the aesthetics of metal: Destabilising capital through mediocrity and incompetence’ online talk at University of Southern Denmark, 3 September 2015. [Video of talk here]…

New publication

More Corbynalia by me (with bad headlines that I didn’t write)

Stop moaning, let’s now try to embrace Corbyn, in the Jewish Chronicle, 17 September 2015

It’s vital for Jeremy Corbyn to establish a working relationship with British Jews, in Guardian Comment Is Free, 17 September 2015…