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The cultural politics of human rights comparing the US and UK

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  • Author: Nash, Kate
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    2012
    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 ccosmopolitan ethical framework
    • Towards a cosmopolitan state?
    Sujets: Great Britain | Human rights | Politics and culture | United States
    Original Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
    Language(s): English