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.
Yates, D. and Rausch, C. (2022) ‘Private art businesses and organized crime’, in The Private Sector and Organized Crime. London: Routledge, pp. 210–223.
Mackenzie, S. (2022) ‘Criminology towards the metaverse: cryptocurrency scams, grey economy and the technosocial’, The British Journal of Criminology, 62.
Yates, D. (2022) ‘What auction catalogue analysis cannot tell us about the market’, in Fabiani, M.D., Burmon, K.M. and Hufnagel, S. (eds) Global Perspectives on Cultural Property Crime. London: Routledge.
Brodie, N., Kersel, M.M., Mackenzie, S., Sabrine, I., Smith, E. and Yates, D. (2021) ‘Why there is still an illicit trade in cultural objects and what we can do about it’, Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(4), pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.1996979.
Oosterman, N., Mackenzie, S. and Yates, D. (2021) ‘Regulating the wild west: symbolic security bubbles and white collar crime in the art market’, Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, pp. 1–9.
Brodie, N. (2021) ‘Cuneiform exceptionalism? Justifying the study and publication of unprovenanced cuneiform tablets from Iraq’, in Oosterman, N. and Yates, D. (eds) Crime and art: sociological and criminological perspectives of crimes in the art world, Springer, pp. 103–118.
Yates, D., Bērziņa, D. and Wright, A. (2021) ‘Protecting a Broken Window: Vandalism and Security at Rural Rock Art Sites’, The Professional Geographer, Epub ahead of print, pp. 1-7.
Brodie, N. (2021) ‘Die Stele von Tell Sheikh Hamad’, in Hemeier, B. and Sabrine, I. (eds) Kulturraub – Fallbeispiele aus Syrien, Irak, Jemen, Ägypten und Libyen, Berlin: Museum für Islamische Kunst/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, pp. 101–106.
Yates, D. (2021) ‘Investigating antiquities trafficking’, Global Investigative Journalism Network, 20 September: online.
Yates, D. (2021) ‘Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas’, Material Religion. DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2021.1947036.
Yates, D. (2021) ‘Crime and its objects: Human/object relationships and the market for illicit Latin American antiquities’, Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 51(2), pp. 307–312.
Mackenzie, S., Hübschle, A. and Yates, D. (2021) ‘Global trade in stolen culture and nature as neocolonial hegemony’, in Blaustein, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Pino, N.W. and White, R. (eds) The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 419–436.
Mackenzie, S. and Yates, D. (2020) ‘Researching the structure of the illicit antiquities trade’, in Tompkins, A. (ed.) Provenance Research Today: Principles, Practice, Problems, London: Lund Humphries.
Yates, D. and Bērziņa, D. (2020) ‘Regulating the “grey” antiquities market: What works, what does not and a way forward’, in Opportunities and Challenges of the Art and Antiques Market Management, Riga: The National Heritage Board of Latvia, pp. 73–84.
Brodie, N. (2020) ‘Restorative justice? Questions arising out of the Hobby Lobby return of cuneiform tablets to Iraq’, Revista Memória em Rede, 12, pp. 87–109.
Mackenzie, S. and Yates, D. (2020) ‘Crime, corruption, and collateral damage: Large infrastructure projects as a threat to cultural heritage’, in Lo, T.W., Siegel, D. and Kwok, S.I. (eds) Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders: Exploring the Belt and Road Initiative, London: Routledge.
Brodie, N. (2020) ‘What is this thing called the PAS? Metal-detecting entanglements in England and Wales’, Revista d’Arqueologia de Ponent, 30, pp. 85–100.
Atkinson, C., Yates, D. and Brooke, N. (2020) ‘Now that you mention it, museums probably are a target: museums, terrorism and security in the United Kingdom’, Museum Management and Curatorship, 35(2), pp. 109–124.
Yates, D. and Smith, E. (2019) ‘Antiquities trafficking and the provenance problem’, in Milosch, J. and Pearce, N. (eds) Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach, London: Rowman & Littlefield.