Nash, Kate. 2009. The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521618670; 9780521853521 [Book]

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The cultural politics of human rights disrupts taken-for-granted norms of national political life. Human rights activists imagine practical deconstruction of the distinction between citizens and noncitizens through which national states have been constituted. They envisage a world order of cosmopolitan states in which the rights of all would be fully respected. How likely is it that such a form of society might be realised through their activities? Is collective responsibility for human rights currently being shaped in cultural politics? If so, how, and with what consequences? If not, how is it that the vision of human rights activists is failing to take effect given the explosion of discourse on human rights in recent years?

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology > Unit for Global Justice (UGJ)
Date:	April 2009
Item ID:	3796
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2010 13:04
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2021 11:36
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/3796

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