Large-scale disasters are frequently portrayed as temporally bounded, linear events after which survivors are encouraged to ‘move on’ as quickly as possible. In this paper, we explore how understandings of disaster mobilities and temporalities challenge such perspectives. Drawing on empirical research undertaken on Dhuvaafaru in the Maldives, a small island uninhabited until 2009 when it was populated by people displaced by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, we examine what such understandings mean in the context of sudden population displacement followed by prolonged resettlement. The study reveals the diversity of disaster mobilities, how these reflect varied and complex temporalities of past, present, and future, and how processes of disaster recovery are temporally extended, uncertain, and often linger. In addition, the paper shows how attending to these dynamics contributes to understandings of how post-disaster settlement brings stability for some people while producing ongoing feelings of loss, longing, and unsettlement in others.

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灾难流动性、暂时性和恢复：马尔代夫海啸的经历

大规模灾难经常被描述为有时间限制的线性事件，之后鼓励幸存者尽快“继续前进”。在本文中，我们探讨了对灾害流动性和时间性的理解如何挑战这些观点。马尔代夫 Dhuvaafaru 是一个小岛，2009 年之前一直无人居住，当时岛上居住着因 2004 年印度洋海啸而流离失所的人们。我们借鉴对马尔代夫 Dhuvaafaru 岛进行的实证研究，研究了这种理解在人口突然流离失所和长期重新安置的背景下意味着什么。该研究揭示了灾难流动性的多样性，这些流动性如何反映过去、现在和未来的各种复杂的时间性，以及灾难恢复过程如何在时间上延长、不确定且经常持续。此外，本文还展示了关注这些动态如何有助于理解灾后安置如何为一些人带来稳定，同时给另一些人带来持续的失落、渴望和不安的感觉。