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The cultural politics of human rights : comparing the US and UK / Kate Nash.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge Univ. Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511518034
  • 051151803X
  • 9780511576676
  • 0511576676
  • 0511738463
  • 9780511738463
  • 1107196094
  • 9781107196094
  • 0511515642
  • 9780511515644
  • 0511514492
  • 9780511514494
  • 0511516924
  • 9780511516924
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural politics of human rights.DDC classification:
  • 323.0941 22
LOC classification:
  • JC599.U5 N277 2009eb
Online resources:
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?
Summary: Explores how crucial cultural politics is to the realization of human rights ideals.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-203) and index.

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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?

Explores how crucial cultural politics is to the realization of human rights ideals.

English.

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