Witnessing Sociocide: A Comparative Sociology of War [Paperback]

1. Sociocide 2. Urbicide, Domicide, Scholasticide, Genocide: The Social Destructions of War 3. The Loss of Societys Capacity for Self-Organization in Chechnya 4. The Question of Legitimacy after the US Invasion of Iraq 5. The Threat to Interethnic Ritual Kinship during the War in Ukraine 6. Srebrenica: At the Edge of Genocide 7. The Sophistry of Face-work 8. The Lure of the Pariah 9. Revenge as a Black Hole 10. A Foucauldian Reading of Peace Accords 11. Sociocide as an Endpoint of Capitalism 12. Restoring the Social after Sociocide: An Analysis of Three Short Films from Bosnia-Herzegovina

This book is a sociological study of recent international conflicts, from Bosnia and Iraq to Ukraine and Gaza. Its approach is theoretical, applying the framework of sociocide to assess the social consequences of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza through comparisons with previous conflicts that meet these criteria.

This book stages a highly important intervention in one of the most pressing social conversations of our time. The greatest strength of this book lies in the authors courage to write about suffering from a humanistic perspective in a societal climate where public opinion is deeply divided into FOR and AGAINST. The author does so without sparing the responsible policies that effectively preserve dominant narratives keeping the conflict alive. Extending his theory of sociocide in a salient way, Keith Doubt continues to address the question of morality in politicsa subject largely neglected in many social theories.

Nermina Mujagi, Professor of Political Science, University of? Sarajevo

Doubts notion of sociocide is an important contribution. He makes clear that? we are now close to the sociocidal abyss, at risk of unraveling everything social that sustains us. Read, weep, and act.

Charles Derber, Professor of SolS+