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
Conclusion
The institutional-legal realisation of human rights
Human rights as a cosmopolitan ethical framework
Towards a cosmopolitan state?
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
Conclusion
The institutional-legal realisation of human rights
Human rights as a cosmopolitan ethical framework
Towards a cosmopolitan state?