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Failures and consequences of anti-antiquities trafficking policy in Mesoamerica
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Introduction
No full textCriminologists and sociologists are poorly represented in academic discourse on art and heritage crimes. Within criminology and sociology, art crime is considered an ultra-niche topic, a subject of focus for few, of passing interest for some, and usually relegated without much elaboration to some broader categorisation of crime: white collar crime, organised crime, etc. It does not exist as a delineated space of contemplation and research. With this volume, we seek to encourage not only an increased focus on art crime within criminology and sociology, but also to promote the utility of criminological and sociological frameworks and tools for art crime research. In developing the concept of this volume, we sought contributions which moved decidedly beyond case studies, towards methodological or theoretical advancement. We called for chapters that pushed boundaries, considered new questions, and reframed existing understandings of ‘art crimes’. Using criminology and sociology as unifying themes, we selected chapters that focused on elaboration, not description; experimentation, not reporting
Investigating Antiquities Trafficking
No full textEditor’s Note: Over the next few weeks, GIJN is running a series drawn from our forthcoming Reporter’s Guide to Investigating Organized Crime, which will debut in full in November at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. This section, which focuses on the illicit antiquities trade, is written by Donna Yates, an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht University and a member of the Trafficking Culture Project
Crime, Material and Meaning in Art World Desirescapes:How Matter Matters for Art Crime
No full textIn this chapter we propose the idea of a ‘desirescape’, where a spatial array of myriad agentic objects cultivates desire among people to collect, own, possess, and show off artworks. Within this desirescape, people are conceived of as caught in a web of objects that not only generate and manipulate desire, but also disturb reason. Moving away from a human-oriented sociology of art worlds, we explore the object networks of art within market spaces (dealerships, museums, art fairs, auctions) to consider how actor-objects active create a network into which human-subjects are drawn. We then consider how these object-networks might lead to the violation of ethical or social norms or the committing of a crime. While we ultimately advocate for an expansion of object-focused criminological theory, this work has immediate practical implications. Criminologists may benefit from thinking about crime prevention priorities in terms of changing the network properties of these webs of alluring objects, rather than focussing on the more traditional technique of dissuading individuals from committing crime through responding to these allures
Introduction
No full textThis introduction provides an overview of the chapters in this volume which focus on expanding the boundaries and concepts of art crime to spaces previously unconsidered. The chapters are embedded within a diverse set of disciplinary perspectives and empirical observations, and this introduction provides a brief contextualisation of each
Correction to: Digital transit ports for the illicit trade in antiquities:the case of the 'Afghan Genizah' (Jun, fqac032, 2022)
No full textThis is a correction to: Cecilia Palombo, Donna Yates, Digital transit ports for the illicit trade in antiquities: the case of the ‘Afghan Genizah’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac032 The projects researching ‘Afghan Genizah’ manuscripts have been corrected since the originally published version of this article. The authors apologize for this error.</p
Archaeology and autonomies: the legal framework of heritage management in a new Bolivia
Get PDFThe 2009 Bolivian Constitution significantly changed the structure of the state and paved the way for the creation of regional, local, and even indigenous autonomies. These autonomies are charged with the management of archaeological sites and museums within their territory. This article answers the question of who currently owns the Bolivian past, it stems from concerns raised at the 2011 renewal hearing of the Memorandum of Understanding preventing the import of illicit Bolivian antiquities into the United States. By combining an analysis of recent legal changes related to the creation of the autonomies and a short discussion of a notable case study of local management of a Bolivian archaeological site, this article offers a basic summary of the legal framework in which Bolivian archaeology and heritage management functions and some preliminary recommendations for governments and professionals wishing to work with Bolivian authorities at the state and local level
Crime and its objects:Human/object relationships and the market for illicit Latin American antiquities
No full textDealers and collectors of Latin American antiquities are, by definition, white collar actors. It would be a logical next step to say that people in those groups who knowingly engage with the illicit trade are white collar criminals who are unlikely to self-define as such and are equally unlikely to see their actions as crimes. This leaves us with more questions than answers. The question of how these white collar actors justify their actions and classify themselves as non-criminals is covered elsewhere (Mackenzie 2006, 2014; Mackenzie and Yates 2016a). For the remainder of this essay, I am going to consider not how they do this, but one possible reason why. Moving away from classic ideas of white collar crime as being financially motivated, I want to consider the development of human/object relationships as a motivating factor for engagement in the illicit market for Latin American antiquities, and indeed in the grey market (Mackenzie and Yates 2016b) for antiquities more generally
Letter from Donna Nakamura to George Hideo Nakamura
No full textCorrespondence from Donna Nakamura to "Daddy," that is, George Hideo Nakamura, during his service in the armed forces.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Exploring friendships behind prison walls
No full textPositive connections between men in prison are rarely thought about or discussed in academic research. Yet as Crewe (2014),1 Laws and Lieber(2020),2 and Morey and Crewe (2018) highlight,3 considerable intimacy and camaraderie exists between imprisoned men. In this paper, we utilise academic collaborative writing — taking a knowledge equity approach — to examine friendships between imprisoned men. One author with first hand lived experience of prison (Marc)writes about their experiences freely in their own words, in the first person, and creates the wider narrative together with an academic (Donna). We suggest these conditions create a more relaxed and natural position for a person with lived experience sof prison to share them, arguably encouraging openness surrounding sensitive topics like friendships during incarceration, deepening insights. Through this process of co-production, we aim to bridge some of the distance from the conventional space of ‘research participant’towards a more equitable ‘participant author
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