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WORK TITLE: The Political Sociology of Human Rights
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Nash, Kate, 1958-
Special note: Not the same as Nash, Kate (College teacher) (nb2014023787)
Found in: Universal difference, 1997: CIP t.p. (Kate Nash, lecturer
in sociology, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich) data sheet
(b. 02-07-58)
Readings in contemporary political sociology, 1999: CIP
t.p. (Kate Nash) galley (Ph.D. in sociology from the
University of Essex)
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PERSONAL
Female.
EDUCATION:Graduated from City University, 1990; University of Essex, Ph.D., 1995.
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CAREER
Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London, 1999-, currently codirector; Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, fellow. New School for Social Research, New York, NY, and Vincent Wright Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, France, visiting professor, 2010; UN University for Peace, Costa Rica, visiting professor, 2016.
WRITINGS
Contributor to books and periodicals.
SIDELIGHTS
Kate Nash is the codirector of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, the University of London. She is a highly respected pioneer on the sociology and politics of human rights in a context of globalization. She is a contributor to many books and periodicals and has edited several others. Among her books are Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of “Women”; Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, Power; The Political Sociology of Human Rights; and The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK.
In The Cultural Politics of Human Rights, Nash examines the subject of human rights and the difference between the rights that every human should be entitled to and the rights that the various nations grant their citizens. Nash studies court rulings on terrorism and states that the United Kingdom is more responsive to human rights than is the United States. A.J. Ward, in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries was impressed with the volume. Ward wrote that “working through courts has limits, and Nash believes that cosmopolitan human rights norms must be written into domestic law to be effective.” The reviewer “recommended” the volume.
In 2016, Nash wrote The Political Sociology of Human Rights, in which she states that universal human rights, rather than coming from a natural law or from God, are, in fact, developed by humans. She discusses how demands are made by groups and organizations when it comes to human rights. Choice reviewer D.P. Forsythe was not overly impressed by the book and wrote: “Most students looking for a clear introduction to contemporary human rights in international context—their establishment and effectiveness—will need to look elsewhere.” The reviewer also felt that those in the field would probably find something to like in the volume.
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, May, 2010. A.J. Ward, review of The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK, p. 1772; April, 2016. D.P. Forsythe, review of The Political Sociology of Human Rights, p. 1236.
ONLINE
Goldsmiths, University of London, http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/nash/ (April 5, 2017), author faculty profile.
Kate Nash did a Sociology degree at City University as a mature student, completing in 1990, and then a PhD in the Department of Government at Essex University, finishing in 1995. Kate has been teaching in the Department since 1999.
Kate is the co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, and a Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. In 2010, Kate was Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York and Vincent Wright Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. In 2016, Kate was Visiting Professor at the UN University for Peace, Costa Rica.
Teaching
Kate currenty convenes and teaches on 'Constructing Human Rights', a core course of the MA in Human Rights, Culture and Social Justice; and a third year option 'Citizenship and Human Rights'. I also supervise MA dissertations, especially for students on the MA in Human Rights, Culture and Social Justice.
Areas of supervision
Kate is especially interested in supervising PhD students working on issues of cultural politics in relation to human rights, citizenship, social movements and media.
Currently supervising
Jaqueline Kinghan ‘Lawyers Changing Lives: A Contemporary History of Progressive Lawyers’ (AHRC funded)
Pablo Castano Tierno ‘Populism and feminism in Bolivia. The relations between women's movements and MAS governments' (with Sara Farris) (funded by La Caixa Bank Foundation, Spain)
Completed PhD students
Miranda Iosoffidis '”Uprisings don’t enter musemus”: Invoking the 1973 Athens Polytechnic Uprising, A Study of Political Myths’ (ESRC Funded)
Hilde Stephenson 'Making global publics? Communication and knowledge production in the World Social Forum' (ESRC funded) 2011
Elisa Fiaccadori 'The War on Terror and the State of Exception' (ESRC Funded) 2011
Laurence Pawley '“Constructing the Audience”: Manifestations of Citizenship in the BBC' (ESRC funded) 2009
Jennie Munday 'Crisis in the Countryside? An Investigation of the Countryside Alliance as a Rural Social Movement' (ESRC funded) 2008
Madeleine Kennedy McFoy 'Situated Citizenships, Routed Belongings: Learning and Living French and British Citizenship at School' (ESRC funded) 2007;
Francis R White 'British Indie Music In the 1990s: Public Spheres, Media and Exclusion' (ESRC funded) 2006;
Heidi Lempp 'Medical Education: the Transition from Student to Pre-registrar Doctor' 2004.
Research Interests
Kate is currently interested in a range of issues around human rights. At the moment, Kate is especially interested in researching how film – from feature length documentaries to clips on youtube and ‘found footage’ that is used in court – is made part of strategies and campaigns to raise awareness of human rights wrongs and to inform and mobilise action to address them.
Publications
Book
The Political Sociology of Human Rights
Nash, Kate. 2015. The Political Sociology of Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521148474
Contemporary Political Sociology: globalization, politics, power
Nash, Kate. 2010. Contemporary Political Sociology: globalization, politics, power. Chichester, Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-3075-5
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK
Nash, Kate. 2009. The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521618670; 9780521853521
Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of "Women"
Nash, Kate. 1998. Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of "Women". Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-21004-3
Edited Book
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Abraham-Hamanoiel, Alejandro; Freedman, Des (D. J.) ; Khiabany, Gholam; Nash, Kate and Petley, Julian, eds. 2017. Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits. London: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 978-1-906897-40-6
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology
Nash, Kate; Amenta, Edwin and Scott, Alan, eds. 2012. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Chichester, Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-3093-9
New Critical Writings in Political Sociology
Nash, Kate; Scott, Alan and Smith, Anna Marie, eds. 2009. New Critical Writings in Political Sociology. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-2750-0
Book Section
Is it social movements that construct human rights?
Nash, Kate. 2015. Is it social movements that construct human rights? In: , ed. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 743-752. ISBN 978-0-19-967840-2
‘The Promise of Pragmatic Sociology: Human Rights and the State’
Nash, Kate. 2014. ‘The Promise of Pragmatic Sociology: Human Rights and the State’. In: Simon Susen and Bryan Turner, eds. The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: essays on the pragmatic sociology of critique. London: Anthem. ISBN 9781783082964
Towards a political sociology of human rights
Nash, Kate. 2012. Towards a political sociology of human rights. In: Kate Nash; Edwin Amenta and Alan Scott, eds. The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 444-453. ISBN 9781444330939
We are citizens of the world?
Nash, Kate. 2012. We are citizens of the world? In: , ed. Global Values in a Changing World. Amsterdam: KIT, 182--202. ISBN 978 94 6022 210 8
Conventional and Contentious Politics
Nash, Kate. 2009. Conventional and Contentious Politics. In: Kate Nash; Alan Scott and Anna Marie Smith, eds. New Critical Writings in Political Sociology. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-2759-3
Democratic human rights
Nash, Kate. 2009. Democratic human rights. In: Rhiannon Morgan and Bryan S Turner, eds. Interpreting Human Rights: Social Science Perspectives. Routledge, pp. 87-103. ISBN 978-0-415-48615-6
Cultural Studies and human rights
Nash, Kate. 2007. Cultural Studies and human rights. In: Karin Harrasser; Sylvia Riedmann and Alan Scott, eds. Politik der Cultural Studies. Vienna: Turia und Kant. ISBN 978-3-85132-445-7
Out of Europe: human rights and prospects for cosmopolitan democracy
Nash, Kate. 2007. Out of Europe: human rights and prospects for cosmopolitan democracy. In: Chris Rumford, ed. Cosmopolitanism and Europe. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-8463-1047-8
Article
Politicising human rights in Europe: challenges to legal constitutionalism from the Left and the Right
Nash, Kate. 2016. Politicising human rights in Europe: challenges to legal constitutionalism from the Left and the Right. The International Journal of Human Rights, ISSN 1364-2987
Global Capitalism and Human Rights
Nash, Kate. 2013. Global Capitalism and Human Rights. Journal of Globalization Studies, 4(1), pp. 63-77. ISSN 2075–8103
Human Rights, Movements and Law: On not researching legitimacy
Nash, Kate. 2012. Human Rights, Movements and Law: On not researching legitimacy. Sociology, 46(5), pp. 797-812. ISSN 0038-0385
States of Human Rights
Nash, Kate. 2011. States of Human Rights. Sociologica, 1(n/a), pp. 1-10. ISSN 1971-8853
Media and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights
Nash, Kate. 2010. Media and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights.
Between Citizenship and Human Rights
Nash, Kate. 2009. Between Citizenship and Human Rights. Sociology, 43(6), pp. 1067-1083. ISSN 0038-0385
Global citizenship as showbusiness : the cultural politics of Make Poverty History
Nash, Kate. 2008. Global citizenship as showbusiness : the cultural politics of Make Poverty History. Media, Culture and Society, 30(2), pp. 167-181. ISSN 0163-4437
Global citizenship as showbusiness: the cultural politics of Make Poverty History
Nash, Kate. 2008. Global citizenship as showbusiness: the cultural politics of Make Poverty History. Sociology Working Papers, pp. 1-27.
The Pinochet case: cosmopolitanism and intermestic human rights
Nash, Kate. 2008. The Pinochet case: cosmopolitanism and intermestic human rights. Sociology Working Papers, pp. 1-35.
The Pinochet case : cosmopolitanism and intermestic human rights
Nash, Kate. 2007. The Pinochet case : cosmopolitanism and intermestic human rights. British Journal of Sociology, 58(3), pp. 417-435. ISSN 0007-1315
Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: Critique and Critical Possibilities
Nash, Kate. 2007. Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: Critique and Critical Possibilities. Theory Culture & Society, 24(4), pp. 53-57. ISSN 14603616
The Politics of Framing: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
Nash, Kate and Bell, Vikki. 2007. The Politics of Framing: An Interview with Nancy Fraser. Theory Culture & Society, 24(4), pp. 73-86. ISSN 14603616
Political culture, ethical cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy
Nash, Kate. 2006. Political culture, ethical cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy. Cultural Politics, 2(2), pp. 193-211. ISSN 1743-2197 ; e-ISSN 1751-7435
Dangerous rights: of citizens and humans
Nash, Kate. 2006. Dangerous rights: of citizens and humans. Sociology Working Papers, pp. 1-19.
Human rights culture: solidarity, diversity and the right to be different
Nash, Kate. 2005. Human rights culture: solidarity, diversity and the right to be different. Citizenship Studies, 9(4), pp. 335-348. ISSN 13621025
Towards a Critical Sociology of Human Rights
Nash, Kate. 2005. Towards a Critical Sociology of Human Rights. Sociology Working Papers, pp. 1-21.
Cosmopolitan political community : why does it feel so right?
Nash, Kate. 2003. Cosmopolitan political community : why does it feel so right? Constellations, 10(4), pp. 506-518. ISSN ISSN 1351-0487 ; Online ISSN 1467-8675
Human rights for women: an argument for 'deconstructive equality'
Nash, Kate. 2002. Human rights for women: an argument for 'deconstructive equality'. Economy and Society, 31(4), pp. 414-433. ISSN 0308-5147
Thinking political sociology: beyond the limits of post-Marxism
Nash, Kate. 2002. Thinking political sociology: beyond the limits of post-Marxism. History of the Human Sciences, 15(4), pp. 97-114. ISSN 0952-6951
Kate Nash is a leading political sociologist whose work focuses on the nexus of human rights, politics and culture. Professor Nash has been with the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths since 1999 where she teaches on the sociology of human rights; cultural politics; political sociology; feminist theory; citizenship; social movements; and equality and diversity. She earned a degree in Sociology at City University as a mature student, completing in 1990, and then a PhD in the Department of Government at Essex University, finishing in 1995. She is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, and a Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. In 2010, Professor Nash she was Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York and Vincent Wright Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. Kate Nash is a highly-regarded, pioneering thinker on the sociology and politics of human rights in a context of globalisation. She is author of: The Political Sociology of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, July 2015); Contemporary Political Sociology: globalization, politics, power (Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Nash, Kate. The cultural politics of human rights: comparing the US and UK
A.J. Ward
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Nash, Kate. The cultural politics of human rights: comparing the US and UK. Cambridge, 2009. 209p bibl index ISBN 9780521853521, $81.00; ISBN 9780521618670 pbk, $31.99
Nash (Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London, UK) assumes human rights as a given and asks what the effects of such rights are in practice. What conditions do human rights require, and how close are activists to achieving those conditions? She examines the "cultural politics" of human rights, the "public contests over how society is imagine& how social relations are, could be and should be organized." The concept of human rights is cosmopolitan, but how can it be reconciled with the nation-state through which human rights have to be realized. Case studies focus on the UK and US and court rulings on terrorism. British courts have been more responsive to human rights than US courts, and the UK government more responsive to court rulings. The UK is better integrated into a transnational human rights regime, in the Council of Europe and the EU, than is the US, which campaigns for cosmopolitan human rights bur practices American exceptionalism. Working through courts has limits, and Nash believes that cosmopolitan human rights norms must be written into domestic law to be effective. The book is written as sociological theory. Ir raises important issues bur is not for beginners. Summing Up: Recommended. ** Graduate, research, and professional collecdons.--A. J. Ward, emeritus, College of William and Mary
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Ward, A.J. "Nash, Kate. The cultural politics of human rights: comparing the US and UK." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, May 2010, p. 1772. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA251862166&it=r&asid=efffb2533152b513338a289f0f601be2. Accessed 5 Mar. 2017.
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Nash, Kate. The political sociology of human rights
D.P. Forsythe
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1236.
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Nash, Kate. The political sociology of human rights. Cambridge, 2015. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780521197496 cloth, $94.99; ISBN 9780521148474 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781316371138 ebook, $24.00
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Nash (sociology, Univ. of London) has written a conceptual book largely for other sociologists. Early on she is much taken with the notion of social construction, making the widely accepted point that universal human rights are devised by humans rather than coming from God or natural law via some immutable ten commandments. Demands change concerning what protections are needed from states and other "structures" like capitalism. She addresses how persons organize to make demands, covering such subjects as transnational advocacy networks, grassroots movements, and nongovernmental organizations. As for duty bearers, she addresses states and the UN, but more as forms of social organization than as political-legal actors. She moves on to consider whether the human rights discourse can change structures like capitalism, paternalism, or anti-feminism, and patterns of migration. She concludes with a further discussion of her central concept of "cultural politics" or the struggle to make effective the norms against "suffering and injustice." Most students looking for a clear introduction to contemporary human rights in international context--their establishment and effectiveness--will need to look elsewhere. Those in sociology may find her approach interesting. Optional for most libraries. Summing Up: * Optional. Graduate and research collections.--D. P. Forsythe, University of Nebraska
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Forsythe, D.P. "Nash, Kate. The political sociology of human rights." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Apr. 2016, p. 1236+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA449661848&it=r&asid=0b73779316bb492abd11c99a3ec0ea7c. Accessed 5 Mar. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A449661848