Cultural Politics of Human Rights Comparing the US and UK

Name: Cultural Politics of Human Rights Comparing the US and UK
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ISBN: 9780521618670

ISBN-10: 0521618673

ISBN-13: 9780521618670

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kate Nash

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Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.550



Preface


List of acronyms used in the book


Table of cases



What does it matter what human rights mean?


Human rights culture and cultural politics


From the national to the cosmopolitan state?


Comparing the US and UK


Outline of the book



Analysing the intermestic human rights field


Authority as power: the intermestic human rights field


Cultural political strategies: justifications of human rights



Sovereignty, pride and political life


American exceptionalism


Human rights at home in the UK


Learning from Guantanamo and Belmarsh



Imagining a community without 'enemies of all mankind'


Human rights against 'enemies of all mankind'


Imagining a community of global citizens


Re-imagining an (inter)national community of citizens


Cosmopolitan national citizenship


Cosmopolitanism-from-below



Global solidarity: justice not charity


Popular global solidarity


Rights against poverty


Justice or charity


Campaigning for social and economic rights



Conclusion


The institutional-legal realisation of human rights


Human rights as a cosmopolitan ethical framework


Towards a cosmopolitan state?


References


Index