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Sociology After Bosnia and Kosovo
Keith D. Doubt
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Description for Sociology After Bosnia and Kosovo
Paperback. 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. Series: Postmodern Social Futures. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Postmodern Social Futures
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847693771
SKU
V9780847693771
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About Keith D. Doubt
Keith D. Doubt is associate professor of sociology at Truman State University.
Reviews for Sociology After Bosnia and Kosovo
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
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