Introduction: geographical encounters with the Indian Ocean tsunami
Introduction: geographical encounters with the Indian Ocean tsunami
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简介：印度洋海啸的地理遭遇
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-4959.2005.00175_1.x
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2005
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D. Massey
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作者：
B. Greenhough;T. Jazeel;D. Massey
2004年12月26日凌晨袭击南亚和东南亚的海啸造成至少283 000人死亡，另有110万人流离失所（USGS 2005）。全球媒体对灾难的直接后果进行了密集和持续的报道，这确保了世界各地的人们永远不会忘记遥远的陌生人所遭受的破坏、损失和痛苦。像接下来的几个月里的大多数人一样，世界各地的地理学家都深受影响，无论是个人还是随后的专业。将近一年过去了，尽管媒体对这场灾难的关注有所减少，但在大多数受灾地区，重建生活、资源、家园和谅解的工作仍在继续，并将在今后许多年继续进行。许多地理学家都参与了这一正在进行的重要工作的前沿，我们希望在2005年8月RGS-IBG年会的开幕全体会议上汇集对海啸及其物质、情感和智力遗产的地理遭遇的理解。在一个对学术研究的社会参与需求越来越高的世界里，地理学不仅能够为印度洋海啸等重大灾害的后果提供重要的专业知识，它也有责任这样做。为这次全体会议聚集的发言者小组，他们在下面的页面中慷慨地对他们的研究发表了评论，带来了各种各样的子学科和跨学科的地理专业知识，这些知识对正在进行的科学和社会了解事件及其遗产是非常宝贵的。然而，在我们自己的学科的机构空间内，海洋生物学/生物地理学，地貌学，发展地理学和社会/文化理论并不经常被聚集在一起，讨论和思考，可以说围绕着一个单一的事件（当然这还不够）。印度洋海啸的规模使人们清楚地认识到，在一个生机勃勃、动荡不安的世界里，进行这种全面的接触是必要的，因为这个世界拒绝作出最持久的努力，顽固地将其归类为人类或物质。尽管地理学在学术界的制度基础设施，其独特的地位，作为一个学科，跨越社会和自然科学的立场，它很好地提供这样的反应。
This paper was accepted for publication in September 2005 he tsunami waves that struck South and South-East Asia in the early hours of 26 December 2004 claimed the lives of at least 283 000 people and displaced a further 1.1 million in the region (USGS 2005). Intense and sustained global media coverage of the immediate aftermath ensured that the destruction, loss and pain of distant strangers were never far from the minds' eyes of people the world over. Like most in those following months, geographers around the world were deeply affected, both personally and subsequently professionally as well. Nearly one year on, although the disaster has slipped a little from the media's attention, in most of the affected areas the work of rebuilding lives, resources, homes and understandings goes on and will continue to do so for many years to come. Many geographers have been involved at the forefront of this ongoing and impor-tant work, and it is an understanding of these geo-graphical encounters with the tsunami and its material, emotional and intellectual legacies that we wanted to bring together in the Opening Plenary Session at the RGS-IBG's Annual Meeting in August 2005. In a world where the demands for academic research to be socially engaged are increasingly high, Geography is not only well able to offer important expertise on the aftermath of major disasters such as the Indian Ocean tsunami, it also has a responsibility to do so. The panel of speakers assembled for this plenary event, who have generously offered commentaries on their research in the pages that follow, brought with them a diverse array of sub and inter-disciplinary geographical expertise that is proving invaluable to the ongoing scientific and social understanding of the event and its legacies. Within our own discipline's institutional spaces, however, it is not so often that Marine Biology/Biogeography, Geomorphology, Development Geography and Social/Cultural Theory are gathered, discussed and thought together, hung around a singular event so to speak (certainly it is not often enough). The magnitude of the Indian Ocean tsunami brings sharply into focus the neces-sity for such holistic engagements with a lively and volatile world that refuses the most persistent efforts to be obstinately categorized as either human or physical. Despite Geography's institutional infrastructure within academia, its unique position as a discipline that straddles the social and physical sciences positions it well to offer such a response.