Table of Contents

Preface (vii)
Introduction (1)
I History Matters
1 The Endangering, Hampering, and Criminalization of Migration (23)
2 Affective Proximities: As Opposites have Conversations (47)
II Responsibility
3 Searching for Responsibility (79)
4 Forensics (109)
5 Care (127)
III Empathy? 
6 The Fundamental Ambivalence of Empathy (161)
7 The Pharmakon Aesthetics of Empathy (177)
IV Storytell/ing
8 Why Storytell/ing? (235)
9 Deep Listening (255)
10 Weird Stories about Hospitality (281)
Conclusion (315)
Acknowledgments (319) 
Notes (321)
Bibliography (365)
Index (387)

About the Author

Christine Ross is Distinguished James McGill Professor in Contemporary Art History at McGill University. She is the author of The Past Is the Present; It's the Future Too- The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art and The Aesthetics of Disengagement- Contemporary Art and Depression.