Archaeological (Non?) Alignments: Egypt, India, and Global Geographies of the Post-War Past

IF 0.5 0 ASIAN STUDIES South Asian Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/02666030.2019.1674487
W. Carruthers
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This article demonstrates how the politics of non-alignment and multilateralism intersected with the making of scientific knowledge about the past after the Second World War. The article shows how post-war political (re-) arrangements helped to realign not only the geographies of that knowledge, but also the people who could claim expertise in making it. The article concentrates on events during UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, which took place during the 1960s and 1970s in Egypt and Sudan in response to the flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Discussing the Egyptian excavations carried out during the work by the Archaeological Survey of India, the article shows how the campaign offered the chance to realign – if not entirely non-align – the ways in which knowledge of the past was made, circulated, and justified. Carrying out archaeological work in another non-aligned nation-state not only represented a favourable international intervention for India, but also allowed the country to rearrange colonial logics of archaeological knowledge production to its advantage and to claim expertise in their use. The Archaeological Survey of India then attempted to perform this expertise elsewhere and thereby bolster the post-partition narrative of a ‘greater India’.
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考古(非?)《结盟:埃及、印度和战后全球地理》
这篇文章展示了不结盟政治和多边主义是如何与第二次世界大战后关于过去的科学知识的形成相交叉的。这篇文章展示了战后的政治(重新)安排是如何帮助重新排列知识的地理位置的,同时也重新排列了那些声称拥有制造知识的专业知识的人。这篇文章聚焦于联合国教科文组织国际拯救努比亚古迹运动期间的事件,该运动于1960年代和1970年代在埃及和苏丹开展,以应对阿斯旺大坝建设引发的洪水。文章讨论了印度考古调查(Archaeological Survey of India)在工作期间所进行的埃及发掘工作,指出这项运动如何提供机会,重新调整(如果不是完全不一致的话)过去知识的制造、传播和证明方式。在另一个不结盟的民族国家开展考古工作不仅代表了对印度有利的国际干预,而且还允许该国重新安排考古知识生产的殖民逻辑,使其对其有利,并声称在其使用方面具有专业知识。印度考古调查然后试图在其他地方执行这一专业知识,从而支持后分裂的“大印度”叙述。
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