Interfaces and trafficking networks blurring on the margins of source, transit, and market in the transnational illicit trade in cultural objects

Yates, Donna (2024) Interfaces and trafficking networks blurring on the margins of source, transit, and market in the transnational illicit trade in cultural objects. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

These publications, previously published elsewhere, present the framework of the global illicit trade in antiquities, describing all actors, their interfaces, and their embedding within networks of policy and cultural practice. The ability to present antiquities trafficking in these chapters as an articulated form of transnational crime is a result of years of targeted research on the topic, combining fieldwork, open-source intelligence analysis, policy evaluation, and the development of over 100 case studies. The architecture of the functioning of the illicit antiquities trade presented here is now the prevailing understanding of the global illicit antiquities trade. The seemingly unlikely marrying of illegal theft and trafficking at one end, and open, elite, white collar consumption at the other, left a grey unknown space between that my research fills. This, in turn, feeds back into an expanding disciplinary understanding of market greyness and the interfaces between actors within transnational illicit trade. While publications focused on research in Latin America have been selected, the two primary chapters of this submission present a global architecture for this illicit trade. This research reveals the illicit trade in antiquities as a form of transnational organised crime that is dependent on blurred interfaces to function.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
• Colleges/Schools: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences
• Supervisor's Name: McNeill, Professor Fergus
• Date of Award: 2024
• Depositing User: Theses Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:2024-84502
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 26 Aug 2024 15:33
• Last Modified: 26 Aug 2024 15:33
• Thesis DOI: 10.5525/gla.thesis.84502
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/84502

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