Abstract
Tragic events in our society - catastrophes and disasters - always require us to reset our relationship with the things left behind. Things left behind after the disaster are traumatizing, but also important in that they prompt us to mourn for the victims and reflect on the disaster. This article examines the theoretical and practical conditions under which things and humans should be considered together in disasters and catastrophes, emphasizing the political role of things in connecting mourning to the social and public, with a particular focus on the October 29 Itaewon disaster. By doing so, it explores the temporal and social significance of the things left behind by the tragic disaster. It also deals with several examples to show how things left behind by the victims of the tragedy, especially shoes, function as objects of memory and mourning and as works of art that express trauma. Finally, it asks us to discover the possibility of expanding the politics of things beyond the passivity of mourning.
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