Publications
The following is a reference list of academic publications written by members and Friends of the Trafficking Culture project. Publications are listed in reverse date order (i.e. newest at the top). Downloadable pdf files are present when available. Further details about these publications can be viewed by clicking on their respective titles. We ask that anyone using this material cites it appropriately.
Mackenzie, S., Yates, D., Hübschle, A. and Bērziņa, D. (2024) ‘Irregularly regulated collecting markets: antiquities, fossils, and wildlife’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 82, pp. 1111–1130.
Yates, D. and Peacock, E. (2024) ‘T. rex is fierce, T. rex is charismatic, T. rex is litigious: disruptive objects in affective desirescapes’, The International Journal of Cultural Property, 4, pp. 396–418.
Yates, D. and Peacock, E. (2024) ‘The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: dinosaurs in a desirescape’, The Journal of Material Culture, 3, pp. 287–310.
Bērziņa, D. (2024) ‘Between Crime and Commemoration: Human–Object Relationships in the Treasure Hunting for World War II Objects’, Critical Criminology, pp. 139–153.
Yates, D. and Graham, S. (2023) ‘Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2, pp. 145–164.
Yates, D. and Brodie, N. (2023) ‘The illicit trade in antiquities is not the world’s third-largest illicit trade: a critical evaluation of a factoid’, Antiquity, 394, pp. 991–1003.
Yates, D. and Bērziņa, D. (2023) ‘Affective atmosphere in an art fair jewel heist’, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 31, pp. 99–121.
Brodie, N. (2023) ‘Standing Caliph coins from Syria: probably looted and on the market’, in Finkel, I., Fraser, J.A. and Simpson, S.J. (eds) ‘To Aleppo Gone …’ Essays in Honour of Jonathan N. Tubb. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 175–180.
Brodie, N. (2023) ‘Noxious scholarship? Publishing unprovenanced cuneiform tablets from Iraq’, in Brodie, N., Kersel, M.M. and Rasmussen, J.M. (eds) Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Leiden: Sidestone, pp. 95–112.
Brodie, N., Kersel, M.M. and Rasmussen, J.M. (2023) ‘Introduction: variant scholarship’, in Brodie, N., Kersel, M.M. and Rasmussen, J.M. (eds) Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Leiden: Sidestone, pp. 13–19.
Graham, S., Yates, D., El-Roby, A., Brousseau, C., Ellens, J. and McDermott, C. (2023) ‘Relationship prediction in a knowledge graph embedding model of the illicit antiquities trade’, Advances in Archaeological Practice, 11(2), pp. 126–138.
Graham, S., Yates, D. and El-Roby, A. (2023) ‘Investigating antiquities trafficking with generative pre-trained transformer (GPT)-3 enabled knowledge graphs: a case study’, Open Research Europe, 3(100).
Brodie, N. (2023) ‘Academic ‘ethics’ and the Schøyen Collection Aramaic incantation bowls: a personal narrative’, Levant, 55(3), pp. 325–339.
Smith, E. and Thompson, E.L. (2023) ‘A case study of academic facilitation of the global illicit trade in cultural objects: Mary Slusser in Nepal’, International Journal of Cultural Property, pp. 1–20.
Yates, D. and Bērziņa, D. (2022) ‘Criminological frameworks for understanding Mexican antiquities in contemporary European auctions’, in Pérez-Prat Durbán, L. and Ruiz, Z. (eds) EL EXPOLIO DE BIENES CULTURALES. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva.
Brodie, N. (2022) ‘The looting and trafficking of Syrian antiquities since 2011’, in Hashemi, L. and Shelley, L. (eds) Antiquities Smuggling: In the Real and the Virtual World. London: Routledge, pp. 21–58.
Brodie, N. and Yates, D. (2022) ‘Money laundering and antiquities’, Transfer, 1, pp. 97–109.
Isber, S., Abdo, R. and Brodie, N. (2022) ‘Some new evidence documenting the involvement of Da’esh in Syria with the illicit trade in antiquities’, Journal of East Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage, 10(2), pp. 115–136.
Yates, D. (2022) ‘Creative compliance, neutralization techniques, and palaeontological ethics’, The Geological Curator, 11(7), pp. 428–435.