Books
The Political Sociology of Human Rights Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, IBSN 9780521197496
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780521618670
Contemporary Political Sociology: globalization, politics and power Oxford: Blackwell 2nd edition, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4443-3075-5
Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of “Women” London: Macmillan, 1998, ISBN 0-312-21004-3
Edited books
Co-editor with Alejandro Abraham-Hamanoiel, Des Freedman, Gholam Khibiany and Julian Petley Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits London: Goldsmiths Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781906897406
Transnationalizing the Public Sphere? Cambridge: Polity, 2014.IBSN 9780745650586
Co-editor with Edwin Amenta and Alan Scott The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. IBSN 9781444330939
Co-editor with Alan Scott and Anna Marie Smith New Critical Writings in Political Sociology, Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2009 (3 volumes). IBSN 9780754627593
Journal Articles
Beyond suffering, towards justice? Human rights films and the critique of humanitarian culture Human Rights Quarterly, 44/4: 784-805, November 2022, ISSN 1085-794X.
Knowing through human rights films Human Rights Quarterly 44/1: 193-209, February 2022, ISSN 1085-794X.
The cultural politics of human rights and neo-liberalism Journal of Human Rights 2019, Issue 5: 490-505.
Film that brings human rights to life Public Culture, 30/3 2018: 393-412, ISSN 0899-2363.
Neo-liberalisation, universities and the value of bureaucracy The Sociological Review, 2018: 1-16, ISSN 1467-954X.
Politicising human rights in Europe: challenges to legal constitutionalism from the Left and the Right, International Journal of Human Rights, 20/8 2016: 1295-1308
Global capitalism and human rights Journal of Globalization Studies, 4/1 2013 : 63-77.ISSN 2075–8103.
Human rights, movements and law: on not researching legitimacy Sociology, 46/5 2012: 1-16, ISSN 0038-0385.
States of human rights Sociologica with responses from Daniel Levy, Giovanna Procacci, Bryan Turner, and George Steinmetz, and a Reply by the Author, 2011
”The Spirit of Capitalism”: roundtable discussion with Nick Couldry, Jeremy Gilbert, David Hesmondhalgh and Kate Nash, Soundings 2010, Issue 45
Between citizenship and human rights Sociology, 43/6 2009: 1067-1083. ISSN 0038-0385.
Global citizenship as showbusiness: the cultural politics of Make Poverty History Media, Culture and Society, 30/2, 2008: 167-181. ISSN 0163-4437.
The Pinochet case: cosmopolitanism and intermestic human rights The British Journal of Sociology, 58/2, 2007: 417-435. ISSN 0007-1315.
Transnationalizing the public sphere: critique and critical possibilities. Theory, Culture and Society, 24/4, 2007: 53-57. ISSN 14603616.
Political culture, ethical cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy Cultural Politics, 2/2, 2006: 193-211. ISSN 1743-2197.
Human rights culture: solidarity, diversity and the right to be different Citizenship Studies, 9/4, 2005: 335-348. ISSN 13621025.
Cosmopolitan political community: why does it feel so right? Constellations 10/4 2003: 506-518. ISSN 1351-0487.
Thinking political sociology: beyond the limits of post-Marxism History of the Human Sciences 15/4 2002: 97-114. ISSN 0952-6951.
Human Rights for Women: an argument for “deconstructive equality” Economy and Society 31/3 2002: 414-433. ISSN 0308-5147.
A movement moves… Is there a women's movement in England today? The European Journal of Women's Studies 9/3, 2002: 311-328. ISSN 1350-5068.
Review Essay: Political Sociology beyond the social democratic nation-state Sociology 36/2 2002: 437–443. ISSN 0038-0385.
Feminism and contemporary liberal citizenship: the undecidability of “women” Citizenship Studies 5/3, 2001.
The “cultural turn” in social theory: towards a theory of cultural politics Sociology 35/1, 2001: 77-92
Book Chapters
O que podemos aprender com a sociologia política dos Direitos Humanos in A. Koerner, P. C. Endocarla, and C. Vreche (eds) Debates Interdisciplinaressobre Direito e Direitos Humanos Sao Paolo: BCCL/Unicamp, 2022, ISBN 978-65-88816-29-5.
Human Rights, Culture and Communication in L. Chouliaraki and A. Vestergaard (eds) Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication London: Routledge, 2021, IBSN: 978-1-138-23057-6.
Human Rights, Global Justice and the Limits of Law in B. Fassbender and K. Traisbach (eds) The Limits of Human Rights Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, IBSN 978 01 9882 476 3.
Is it social movements that construct human rights? in D. Della Porta and M. Diani (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, Online ISBN: 9780191757938.
The Promise of Pragmatic Sociology: Human Rights and the State in S. Susen and B. Turner (eds) The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: essays on the pragmatic sociology of critique London: Anthem, 2014. IBSN 1783082968.
Towards Transnational Democratisation? in K. Nash (ed) Transnationalizing the Public Sphere? Cambridge: Polity, 2014, IBSN 9780745650586.
We are citizens of the world? in S. Zweegers and A. de Groot (eds) Global Values in a Changing World Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2012: 182--202. ISBN 978 94 6022 210 8.
Towards a political sociology of human rights in E. Amenta, K. Nash and A. Scott (eds) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012: 444-453. ISBN 9781444330939.
Dangerous rights: of citizens and humans in R. Banakar (ed) Rights in context: law and justice in late modern society Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. IBSN 9781409407409.
Democratic human rights in R. Morgan and B. Turner (eds) Interpreting Human Rights: Social Science Perspectives London and New York: Routledge, 2009:87-103. ISBN 9780415486156.
Cultural Studies and human rights in K. Harrasser, S. Riedmann and A. Scott (eds) Politik der Cultural Studies Vienna: Turia und Kant 2007.ISBN 9783851324457.
Out of Europe: human rights and prospects for cosmopolitan democracy in C. Rumford (ed) Cosmopolitanism and Europe Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007.ISBN 9781846310478.
Contested Power: Political Sociology in the Information Age in F. Webster (ed) A New Politics? Culture and Politics in the Information Age New York and London: Routledge 2001. ISBN 978-0415246361.Reprinted in F. Webster and B. Dimitriou (eds) Manuel Castells Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought vol. 3, London and California: Sage 2003. IBSN 9780761940432.
