Abstract This paper draws upon research undertaken to understand the role of self-storage in the lives and losses of those who use it. For many renting self-storage is a temporary solution at a time of stress and/or transformation in their lives, including family bereavement. This paper will demonstrate how self-storage affects practices of mourning and remembrance, in particular by distancing and delaying engagement with memories and emotions during the process of divesting the effects of the deceased. In a similar way to avoiding places because of their associations with lost loved ones (Maddrell, 2016), self-storage acts as a space to safely store triggering possessions away from the place/moment/relations of bereavement. This paper shows how putting evocative objects in storage spaces out of sight and out of mind allows them to be re-encountered in a new context, often at a later date and under less desperate terms. Spatial, emotional and temporal distance acts to change the relationship felt towards objects and can make their sorting, passing on and disposal easier. By drawing on the experiences of six self-storage users, this paper argues that the self-storage unit is a place of reconciliation: a space to mourn, remember, and eventually move on.

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疏远物质影响以调和损失：在自我存储中整理记忆和情感

摘要 本文借鉴了为了解自我存储在使用它的人的生活和损失中的作用而进行的研究。对于许多人来说，在他们的生活面临压力和/或转变（包括家人丧亲之痛）时，租用自助寄存柜是一种临时解决方案。本文将展示自我存储如何影响哀悼和纪念的实践，特别是在消除死者影响的过程中疏远和延迟与记忆和情绪的接触。与因为与失去亲人的联系而避开地方的方式类似（Maddrell，2016 年），自我存储作为一个空间，可以安全地存储触发财产，远离丧亲之痛的地方/时刻/关系。这篇论文展示了如何将令人回味的物品放在存储空间中，让他们在视线之外和头脑之外重新遇到它们，通常是在以后的日期和不那么绝望的条件下重新遇到它们。空间、情感和时间距离的作用是改变对物体的感觉，并使它们的分类、传递和处置更容易。通过借鉴六个自助仓储用户的经验，本文认为自助仓储单元是一个和解的地方：一个哀悼、记住并最终继续前进的空间。