Shamus Khan
Habits, Canvases, and Conversations: How I Think about Publishing
1. Introduction
I have written in a wide range of formats: for example, books (Khan, 2011), shorter versions of those books (Khan & Jerolmack, 2013), long articles (Accominotti, Khan, & Storer, 2018), short articles (Khan et al., 2018), long form “journalism” (Khan, 2015), long op-eds (Khan, 2012; 2013), short op-eds (Khan, 2016), and even, some time ago, regularly on a blog. I’ve also spent the last four years editing the journal Public Culture, and have edited special issues of other journals (Cousin, Khan, & Mears, 2018; Tahir & Khan, 2019). And I’ve written using a wide range of methods, from experiments (Schneiderhan & Khan, 2008), to historical analysis (Abu-Odeh, Nathanson, & Khan, 2019), to ethnography (Khan et al., 2018), to quantitative analysis (Mellins et al., 2018). The first, rather sobering realization I had upon being asked to write this piece was that I don’t have a publication strategy. At best my approach might be called “pragmatic.”
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