The cultural politics of human rights
Subtitle: comparing the US and UK
By: Kate Nash.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521853521; 9780521618670
Subjects: Human rights -- United States; Politics and culture -- United States; Human rights -- Great Britain; Politics and culture -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What does it matter what human rights mean?; title: Human rights culture and cultural politics; title: From the national to the cosmopolitan state; title: Comparing the US and UK; title: Outline of the book; title: Analysing the intermestic human rights field; title: Authority as power : the intermestic human rights field; title: Cultural political strategies : justifications of human rights; title: Sovereignty, pride, and political life; title: American exceptionalism; title: Human rights at home in the UK; title: Learning from Guantanamo and Belmarsh; title: Imagining a community without 'enemies of all mankind'; title: Human rights against 'enemies of all mankind'; title: Imagining a community of global citizens; title: Re-imagining an (inter)national community of citizens; title: Cosmopolitan national citizenship; title: Cosmopolitanism-from-below; title: Global solidarity : justice not charity; title: Popular global solidarity; title: Rights against poverty; title: Justice or charity; title: Campaigning for social and economic rights; title: The institutional-legal realisation of human rights; title: Human rights as a cosmopolitan ethical framework; title: Towards a cosmopolitan state?