Review: Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology William Carruthers Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2022, 336 pp. , 2 maps, 29 b/w illus. 59. 95 (cloth), ISBN 9781501766442 Menna Agha Menna Agha Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 115–117. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 115 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2024; 83 (1): 115–117. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 115 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search I read William Carruthers's Flooded Pasts as a Nubian woman. Consequently, I do not claim a neutral position, nor do I seek one. As I read, the ghosts of my ancestral flooded land loom large in my consciousness. I appreciate learning from the archival investigations that appear throughout this book. In Egypt, institutional archives are now kept behind a wall of security clearances and permits that are seldom issued to Nubians. Many archives outside Egypt are also inaccessible to Nubian researchers, most of whom are local historians in displacement without affiliations with academic institutions or access to their resources. Nubians were displaced from their ancestral land by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in 1964. This was not the Nubians' first displacement; it was preceded by the building of the Aswan Low Dam, constructed on the First Cataract by British colonialists in 1902 and subsequently heightened twice, in 1912. . . You do not currently have access to this content.