The cultural politics of human rights : comparing the US and UK /
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| Author / Creator: | Nash, Kate, 1958- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge Univ. Press, ©2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11814360 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- The institutional-legal realisation of human rights
- Human rights as a cosmopolitan ethical framework
- Towards a cosmopolitan state?