@article {37741,
	title = {The archaeology of exclusion: Repatriation, whiteness, and a lost daughter named Carrie},
	journal = {Athens University Review of Archaeology},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2023},
	pages = {99-116},
	abstract = {In this paper, I discuss the notion of {\textquotedblleft}repatriation{\textquotedblright} of antiquities that have been illicitly excavated and exported, against the backdrop of Greece{\textquoteright}s attempts to achieve their return. Taking the British Museum Caryatid as my primary case study, I survey recent Greek theatre plays and children{\textquoteright}s storybooks in order to examine how the stolen statue is invariably portrayed as the nation{\textquoteright}s missing {\textquotedblleft}daughter{\textquotedblright} or {\textquotedblleft}sister{\textquotedblright}, suffering in solitary exile and eagerly awaiting {\textquotedblleft}her{\textquotedblright} return. Based on this discussion, I proceed to claim that the repatriation narrative serves as a means to reconfirm Greece{\textquoteright}s whiteness, and the Greek nation{\textquoteright}s rightful place as part of the West. Employing the methodological tools of coloniality and crypto-coloniality, as well as the parallel modern example of Egypt, I argue that it is through such attempts at partial representation that political communities in the periphery of the West imagine themselves into being.},
	url = {http://epub.lib.uoa.gr/index.php/aura/article/view/2427}
}
