本文以2014-2016彰化鐵道遺產保存運動為例，探討鐵道遺產志工屬性及志工情感勞動歷程與目的，由此思考人類學在文化遺產研究的新取向。民族誌主要描繪台灣晚近彰化鐵道遺產保存運動中，志工為何走進遺產廢墟，進行打掃及文資調查；以及，他們如何在具「異托邦」特色的空間內交織出人與「非人」的互動。研究發現，遺產志工係多元異質流動，夾雜公民、常民與菁英之地方社群，有別於宗教團體與社區志工。志工情感勞動依保存運動不同階段而調整其目標與內容，並賦予全球化下地方新視野。

Through the case study of railway heritage preservation campaign in Changhua from 2014 to 2016, this article examines the attributes of railway heritage volunteers as well as the process and purpose of their affective labor, thereby proposing a new approach in anthropology to study cultural heritage phenomena. The ethnography mainly depicts why volunteers were motivated to enter the debris, sweeping and investigating cultural resources there. Also, it focuses on how they weave the interaction between human and “non-human” inside the heterotopic space. The research indicates that heritage volunteers, different from volunteers in modern religious groups and communities, were multiple, heterogeneous, and constantly changing. In addition, they included local citizens, ordinary people, and local elites. The goal and content of their affective labor was adjusted according to different phases of the preservation campaign, which provides new vision for the production of locality under globalization.