New essay by me on dangerous and devilish sounds

Listening to the devil’s sounds in Boundless, December 2017

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What going to a Metallica concert with my daughter taught me about modern infrastructure

View on my Medium blog…

Towards an Exhausted Sociology

Towards an Exhausted Sociology, in Sociological Review blog, 25 October 2017…

Videos of two recent lectures – now online

Beyond Transgression: Breaking Metal’s Boundaries at ‘Boundaries and Ties: The Place of Metal Music in Communities’, University of Victoria, 9 June 2017 View talk here

Antisemitism and divisions over Israel in diaspora Jewish communities : the exploitation of Jewish difference, …

My response to the Campaign Against Antisemitism’s 2017 ‘Barometer’

In mid-August 2017, the Campaign Against Antisemitism published their latest Antisemitism Barometer In an article in the Jewish Chronicle I raised some questions and concerns about the survey. Gideon Falter replied to my article here and I responded further here…

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A conversation with Dougald Hine on the Labour Party

A crack in history? A conversation between two recent Labour Party recruits in Open Democracy, 31 August 2017…

My first ever fiction publication!

Excuse All The Blood in So Fi Zine, Issue 1, June 2017

This is a piece of ‘sociological fiction’, loosely based on my PhD fieldwork experiences in Israel.…

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Interview with Intrepid Times about the Best Waterskier In Luxembourg

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Three new book reviews

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My recommendations for Five Books on Heavy Metal

Five Books on Heavy Metal…