How does culture make a difference to the realisation of human rights in Western states? It is only through cultural politics that human rights may become more than abstract moral ideals, protecting human beings from state violence and advancing protection from starvation and the social destruction of poverty. Using an innovative methodology, this book maps the emergent 'intermestic' human rights field within the US and UK in order to investigate detailed case studies of the cultural politics of human rights. Kate Nash researches how the authority to define human rights is being created within states as a result of international human rights commitments. Through comparative case studies, she explores how cultural politics is affecting state transformation today
How does culture make a difference to the realisation of human rights in Western states? It is only through cultural politics that human rights may become more than abstract moral ideals, protecting human beings from state violence and advancing protection from starvation and the social destruction of poverty. Using an innovative methodology, this book maps the emergent 'intermestic' human rights field within the US and UK in order to investigate detailed case studies of the cultural politics of human rights. Kate Nash researches how the authority to define human rights is being created within states as a result of international human rights commitments. Through comparative case studies, she explores how cultural politics is affecting state transformation today
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?
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