Afterworlds: Grief, Absence, Haunting, and Remembrance in Post-Tsunami Phuket

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

What does it mean to be haunted in a space of recurrent disaster and destruction? During this program session, I will explore how understandings of death, grief, absence, and material/immaterial haunting have developed in Phuket, Thailand in the years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. I will also examine where these understandings may manifest in relations between human beings, non-human beings, and the oceanic environment, and how these relationships continue to unfold, contract, break, and bend throughout the karst caves and windswept beaches of Southwestern Thailand in the age of anthropogenic climate change.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow