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Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo Keith D. Doubt

Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo By Keith D. Doubt

Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo by Keith D. Doubt


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This book provides a sociological account of the events in Bosnia in the 1990s, including ethnic cleansing, mass rape, and the role of political journalists.

Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo Summary

Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice by Keith D. Doubt

This book provides a sociological account of the events in Bosnia in the 1990s, including ethnic cleansing, mass rape, and the role of political journalists. Drawing upon a diverse group of social theorists, including Merton, Weber, and Baudrillard, Sociology After Bosnia constructs a social understanding of the experiences of people in Bosnia and the response of Western leaders to these experiences. Beyond looking at the social causes of these events, Doubt sheds light on why Bosnia and Kosovo have largely been ignored by sociologists. He shows why the personal and social tragedies of people in Bosnia and Kosovo and the world's tolerance of these tragedies challenge contemporary sociological knowledge. Doubt argues that sociologists must be willing not only to recognize this challenge, but also to respond to it in order to construct meaningfully adequate accounts of war and genocide in a postmodern era. Doing so, he contends, may yield an important and needed reconsideration of the existing body of sociologicial knowledge and a revision of how this knowledge is applied.

Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo Reviews

Professor Keith Doubt has produced a sociological analysis of the impact of Bosnia's drama on the modern world of liberal democracy. The result is a book which contributes outstandingly to the comprehension of events in Bosnia and to the identification of current inaccuracies of interpretation. This book is of crucial importance to all efforts to prevent the only temporarily arrested tragedy of Bosnia from sinking into undeserved oblivion. -- Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, president of International Forum Bosnia
This brief work should be read not only by sociologists but by other social scientists such as historians, anthropologists, political scientists. The book is an extremely good text from which to debate some of the essence of sociological theory, and explian it, while focusing on real issues, not only of Bosnia and Kosovo, but, by extention, other fields of conflict in which TV, the press, and popular and immediate writing from public opinion. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *
Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo is a powerful reminder that we need to continue to wrestle with the idea of justice, rather than setting for a facile pragmatism or cynicism that only contended with justice on a superficial level. * Human Rights Review *
This book is engaging and provocative. * Slavic Review *
Few sociologists reach across such a range of topics as does Keith Doubt. Sociology After Bosnia and Kosovo displays his gift for rethinking theory in relation to one of the world's trouble spots. I recommend this book for anyone eager to see sociology in a surprisingly fresh way. -- Charles Lemert, Andrus Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University

About Keith D. Doubt

Keith D. Doubt is associate professor of sociology at Truman State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknomledgements Chapter 2 1 Sociology After Bosnia Chapter 3 2 On the Pathetic Hegemony of Face-Work Chapter 4 3 On the Last Function of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia Chapter 5 4 The Croat-Muslim War: An Inconvenient Fact Chapter 6 5 The Ritual of Shame and the Western Response to Bosnia Chapter 7 6 On the Dialectic of the Scapegoat in Kosovo Chapter 8 7 Feminism and Rape as a Transgression of Species-Being Chapter 9 8 The Iron Cage of Rationality in Bosnia: Max Weber and the UN Chapter 10 9 Charismatic Authority: Mladic in Bosnia Chapter 11 10 Journalism and Modern Ethics: Tim Judah and Roy Gutman Chapter 12 11 Chomsky's Problem: Fairness First Chapter 13 12 On the Injustice of Postmodernism: Peter Handke in Serbia Chapter 14 13 Against the Positivistic-Utilitarian Understanding of Bosnia Chapter 15 14 Justice and Peace Before Utilitarianism Chapter 16 Afterword Chapter 17 Film and Video Resources for Understanding Events in Bosnia Chapter 18 Glossary of Sociological Terms Chapter 19 Glossary of Names Chapter 20 Bibliography

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NLS9780847693771
9780847693771
0847693775
Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice by Keith D. Doubt
New
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2000-03-19
200
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