Fuyuki Kurasawa is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, Canada, Faculty Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and Co-President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociological Theory. He is the author of The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity (2004).

'Human rights have come to the forefront of attention in both political theory and public practice. But too often the treatment in theory has been so abstract it doesn't inform practice as it might - and it doesn't learn from practice as it should. Fuyuki Kurasawa's new book helps to bridge this divide, addressing key questions such as the meaning of bearing witness, the search for foresight, the ways in which forgiveness and aid work, and the ideal of transnational solidarity. His voice is both humane and scholarly; his text will be helpful to readers across a range of disciplines.' Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council

• Introduction. Theorizing the work of global justice; 1. A message in a bottle: on bearing witness; 2. The healing of wounds: on forgiveness; 3. Cautionary tales: on foresight; 4. The stranger's keeper: on aid; 5. Cosmopolitanism from below: on solidarity; Conclusion. Enacting a critical cosmopolitanism.

Fuyuki Kurasawa is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, Canada, Faculty Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and Co-President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociological Theory. He is the author of The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity (2004).

'Human rights have come to the forefront of attention in both political theory and public practice. But too often the treatment in theory has been so abstract it doesn't inform practice as it might - and it doesn't learn from practice as it should. Fuyuki Kurasawa's new book helps to bridge this divide, addressing key questions such as the meaning of bearing witness, the search for foresight, the ways in which forgiveness and aid work, and the ideal of transnational solidarity. His voice is both humane and scholarly; his text will be helpful to readers across a range of disciplines.' Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council

• Introduction. Theorizing the work of global justice; 1. A message in a bottle: on bearing witness; 2. The healing of wounds: on forgiveness; 3. Cautionary tales: on foresight; 4. The stranger's keeper: on aid; 5. Cosmopolitanism from below: on solidarity; Conclusion. Enacting a critical cosmopolitanism.