ISBN:
9780521853521
,
9780521618670
,
0521618673
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 209 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Nash, Kate, 1958 - The cultural politics of human rights
DDC:
323.0941
Keywords:
Human rights
;
Politics and culture
;
Human rights
;
Politics and culture
;
Human rights Great Britain
;
Human rights United States
;
USA
;
Politische Kultur
;
Menschenrecht
;
Großbritannien
Abstract:
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?
Description / 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?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24906
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