Explores how crucial cultural politics is to the realization of human rights ideals.

Kate Nash is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.

Preface; 1. What does it matter what human rights mean?; 2. Analysing the intermestic human rights field; 3. Sovereignty, pride and political life; 4. Imagining a community without 'enemies of all mankind'; 5. Global solidarity: justice not charity; 6. Conclusion.