This study suggests the importance of focusing on lost objects after disasters and gauging the emotional registers and impacts of object loss to best understand and assist in wildfire victims' recovery process. Because objects and materiality are a focus of research in the sociology of culture and the sociology of emotions, I assess these sub-field of interest in object and emotion, along with surveying the various fields dealing with disasters and their aftermaths. Participants were from a small, semi-rural community in the central hill country of Texas. A participant-observer design allowed for working alongside fire survivors. Grounded theory and situational analysis frameworks were used to analyze 54 survivors' narratives related to the importance of everyday household objects in their recovery– things resurrected from the wildfire. The findings suggest that it would be wise to ponder material objects in situated context—in a new manner and with new respect.

这项研究表明，在灾难后关​​注丢失的物品并衡量物品丢失的情绪记录和影响的重要性，以最好地了解和协助野火受害者的恢复过程。由于对象和物质性是文化社会学和情感社会学的研究重点，因此我评估了这些对对象和情感感兴趣的子领域，同时调查了处理灾难及其后果的各个领域。参与者来自德克萨斯州中部山区的一个小型半农村社区。参与者观察者设计允许与火灾幸存者一起工作。扎根理论和情境分析框架被用来分析 54 名幸存者的叙述，这些叙述与日常家用物品在康复过程中的重要性有关——事物从野火中复活。研究结果表明，在情境中以新的方式和新的尊重思考物质对象是明智的。