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.

Brodie, N. (2019), ‘Through a Glass, Darkly: Long-Term Antiquities Auction Data in Context’, International Journal of Cultural Property 26(3): 265–283.
Atkinson, C., D. Yates, and N. Brooke (2019), ‘Researching a Risky Business? The Use of Freedom of Information to Explore Counterterrorism Security at Museums in the United Kingdom’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2019.1647682
Tremain, C.G. and D. Yates, eds. (2019), The Market for Mesoamerica: Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities. Gainsville: University Press of Florida
Welch, J.R., D. Yates, et al. (2019), ‘Hope in Dirt: Report of the Fort Apache Workshop on Forensic Sedimentology Applications to Cultural Property Crime, 15—19 October 2018’. International Journal of Cultural Property, 26(2): 197–210.
Brodie, N. (2019), ‘The Criminal Organization of the Transnational Trade in Cultural Objects: Two Case Studies’, in S. Hufnagel and D. Chappell (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime. London: Routledge, 439–461.
Yates, D. (2019), ‘Cultural Heritage Offences in Latin America: Textile Traffickers, Mummy Mailers, Silver Smugglers, and Virgin Vandals’, in S. Hufnagel and D. Chappell (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime. London: Routledge, 483–501.
Mackenzie, S. (2019), “White-Collar Crime, Organised Crime and the Challenges of Doing Research on Art Crime”, in S. Hufnagel and D. Chappell (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime. London: Routledge, 839–853.
Davis, T. and S. Mackenzie (2019), ‘The International Politics of Cultural Heritage Crime in Cambodia: Past, Present and Future’, in S. Hufnagel and D. Chappell (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime. London: Routledge, 751–767.
Yates, D. and Mackenzie, S. (2018), ‘Heritage, crisis, and community crime prevention in Nepal,’ International Journal of Cultural Property 25(2): 203–221.
Brodie, N. (2018), ‘The Illicit Antiquities Research Centre: afterthoughts and aftermaths’, in Elizabeth Simpson (ed.), The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella. Leiden: Brill, 719-733.
Brodie, N. (2018), ‘Problematizing the encyclopedic museum: the Benin bronzes and ivories in historical context’, in Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai (eds), Unmasking Ideologies: The Vocabulary and Symbols of Colonial Archaeology. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute, 61–82.
Brodie, N. and I. Sabrine (2018), ‘The Illegal Excavation and Trade of Syrian Cultural Objects: A View from the Ground’, Journal of Field Archaeology 43(1): 74–84.
Brodie, N. (2017), “The role of conservators in facilitating the theft and trafficking of cultural objects: the case of a seized Libyan statue,” Libyan Studies 48: 117–123.
Brodie, N. (2017), ‘How to Control the Internet Market in Antiquities? The Need for Regulation and Monitoring’, Antiquities Coalition Policy Brief No 3., July.
Brodie, N. and Manivet, P. (2017), “Cylinder Seal Sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s (1985–2013)”, Journal of Art Crime: 3–16.
Brodie, N. (2017), ‘Virtually gone! The Internet market in antiquities’, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Experts on the Return of Cultural Property. Seoul: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 190–204.
Tsirogiannis, C. (2017), “Museum Ethics and the Toledo Museum of Art”, Journal of Art Crime, Spring.
Yates, D. (2020), ‘”Community Justice,” Ancestral Rights, and Lynching in Rural Bolivia’, Race and Justice 10(1): 3–19.
Yates, D., Mackenzie, S. and Smith, E. (2017), ‘The cultural capitalists: Notes on the ongoing reconfiguration of trafficking culture in Asia’. Crime, Media, Culture, 13(2): 245-254.
Mackenzie, S. and Yates, D. (2016), ‘What is Grey about the “Grey Market” in Antiquities’, in Beckert, J. and Dewey, M. (eds), The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press).