1. Sociocide 2. Urbicide, Domicide, Scholasticide, Genocide: The Social Destructions of War 3. The Loss of Society’s 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
Biography
Keith Doubt is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Wittenberg University. Some of his books include Bosnian Authors in a European Window: A Comparative Study (Routledge, 2023), Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia (2007), and Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo (2000). He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Faculty of Political Science at University of Sarajevo in 2001 and held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Department of Sociology at University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2007. He was the recipient of the Fulbright Flex Grant, involving teaching and research in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, through which he co-authored Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Kinship and Solidarity in a Polyethnic Society (2019).
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 author’s 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 politics—a subject largely neglected in many social theories.
Nermina Mujagić, Professor of Political Science, University of Sarajevo
Doubt’s 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 Sociology, Boston College, and author of Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy (Routledge, 2025) and Fighting Oligarchy: How Positive Populism Can Reclaim America (Routledge, 2026)
