This paper investigates how affective space is located and constructed in post-disaster places. In elaborating this concept, we observe the media narratives developed around the debris created by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region of Japan. The tsunami waves washed away over 20 million tons of debris, some of which was retrieved in foreign countries and brought back to Japan to be memorialized. We contend that the media narratives on the journey back home of these debris items represents a valuable example to assess how affect emerges and is localized in space. We do so by drawing on geographical theories of space and affect, as we analyse how media narratives follow three broadly defined movements: (i) the displacement of the object, its disappearance from home on March 11, 2011; (ii) the discovery of the object years after, on the other side of the Pacific; (iii) the return home for the purpose of memorialization.

本文研究了灾后空间中情感空间的定位和构建方式。在阐述这一概念时，我们观察了围绕日本东北地区2011年地震和海啸造成的残骸而发展起来的媒体叙事。海啸波冲走了超过2000万吨的碎片，其中一些在国外被回收，并带回日本进行纪念。我们认为，关于这些碎片回家的旅程中的媒体叙述是评估影响如何在太空中出现和定位的一个有价值的例子。在分析媒体叙事如何遵循三个大致定义的运动时，我们通过利用空间和影响的地理理论来做到这一点：（i）物体的位移，其在2011年3月11日从家中消失了；（ii）在数年后发现物体，在太平洋的另一侧；（iii）为了纪念而返回家园。