Introduction: humanitarian government
Suffering unveiled: listening to the excluded and the marginalized
Pathetic choice: exposing the misery of the poor
Compassion protocol: legalizing diseased undocumented immigrants
Truth ordeal: attesting violence for asylum seekers
Ambivalent hospitality: governing the unwanted
Massacre of the innocents: representing childhood in the age of AIDS
Desire for exception: managing disaster victims
Subjectivity without subjects: reinventing the figure of the witness
Hierarchies of humanity: intervening in international conflicts
Conclusion: critique of humanitarian reason.
