scholarly journals Lies, damned lies, and archaeologists: Antiquities trafficking research as criminology and the ethics of identification

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Yates
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Doctoral Fellowship ◽  
Antiquities Trafficking ◽  
Illicit Trafficking

By definition, our interactions with those that we consider to be ‘extradisciplinary’ are predicated on our own self-identification as archaeologists. It isn’t news that some stakeholders react negatively to archaeologists. To them, we are not neutral, well-meaning stewards of the past, but rather a competing group that doesn’t compromise and stifles dissent by claiming a mandate on defining ‘the public good’. How can I effectively engage with such groups when my identity as an archaeologist is unforgivable?Perhaps the archaeologist must leave archaeology.This paper is about transitioning from a PhD in archaeology to apost doctoral fellowship in a criminology department. As part of theUniversity of Glasgow’s Trafficking Culture project, I study the looting of archaeological sites and the illicit trafficking of cultural property. For half a century archaeologists have clashed with antiquities intermediaries, collectors, and dealers leaving wounds and scars on both sides. These folks will not engage with an ‘archaeologist’, but they are willing to talk to a ‘sociologist’ or even a ‘criminologist’ which is how I now present myself.This paper will focus on the ethical issues of disciplinary labelling. What are the primary benefits of presenting myself as ‘extra-archaeological’? Of not asserting archaeological expertise? Am I obliged to reveal my archaeological background? Does this change of discipline have a tangible effect on the research that I conduct? Do I protect cultural property or protect informants? Am I still an archaeologist?

scholarly journals Crime, Controversy and the Comments Section: Discussing archaeological looting, trafficking, and the illicit antiquities trade online

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Yates
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Illicit Trade ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Antiquities Trade ◽  
Sensitive Issues

In this article we will discuss the challenges involved in presenting the looting of archaeological sites and the illicit trade in cultural property to the interested public. We will contrast our experiences of building two popular illicit antiquities-focused blogs (Things You Can’t Take Back and Anonymous Swiss Collector) with the process of developing an informative academic website on the same topic (Trafficking Culture). We will discuss our motivations for starting these blogs, our struggles with the tone of the popular discourse on this topic, and our inability to escape our own emotions; why we have moved away from illicit antiquities blogging in the past year and why we are coming back. Finally, having learned from our mistakes, we will make recommendations to others wishing to engage with the public about sensitive issues via social media.

Technology Transfer

2011 ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
Russ Lea
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Technology Parks ◽  
Academic Earmarking

In the past three decades, economic competitiveness has morphed from an international concern (e.g. outcompete Japan) to a regional concern (e.g. knowledge clusters) to one where individual universities are in an “arms race” with each other for private and public funding (including licensing royalties, retaining star faculty, pursuing academic earmarking, developing technology parks and incubators, etc.). The greatest benefit that Bayh-Dole afforded universities, namely, to promote the utilization of their research for the public good, sometimes seems distant to the perceived objectives whereby universities attempt to maximize their own resources, including commercialization profits from faculty innovations that are ultimately transferred to the economy.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Massimo Rostagno ◽  
Carlo Altavilla ◽  
Giacomo Carboni ◽  
Wolfgang Lemke ◽  
Roberto Motto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Central ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
20Th Anniversary

Institutions dedicated to serving the public good must look to the past to learn from experience; and look to the future to prepare, as best they can, for the trials that might lie ahead. The 20th anniversary of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) offers an opportunity to apply such a perspective to the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB): to evaluate its accomplishments and to learn the lessons that can improve the conduct of its policy in the future....

A four-tier approach to the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict

Antiquity ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (335) ◽  
pp. 166-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
The Past ◽  
A Value

This vitally important article sets out the obstacles and opportunities for the protection of archaeological sites and historic buildings in zones of armed conflict. Readers will not need to be told that modern munitions are devastating and sometimes wayward, nor that cultural heritage once destroyed cannot simply be rebuilt. The author makes a vivid case for the role of respect for the past in mitigating hostility and so winning the peace as well as aiding the victory, and guides us through the forest of players. Agencies so numerous, so obscure and so often ineffective might prompt the response ‘a plague on all your acronyms’. All the more important, then, that the author and his associates continue their campaign and are supported by everyone who believes that cultural property has a value that lies beyond sectional interests.

Age as Artefact: On Archaeological Authenticity

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius Holtorf ◽  
Tim Schadla-Hall
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Archaeological Objects

Authenticity is frequently seen as crucial in archaeology. In this paper, we examine the nature of authenticity and question by implication whether so much attention should be given to determining the actual age and thus the genuineness of archaeological objects. We show that numbers of authenticated objects are potentially fakes. There is an acceptance that many archaeological sites and reconstructions are not actually really old, although the acceptability of this view depends on one's flexibility towards the concept of authenticity. It is clear that the public does not necessarily put the same value on genuineness as do archaeologists. We suggest that certain aspects of the past have always been a potentially renewable resource. We suggest that a more relaxed approach to genuineness and authenticity is acceptable today and is already accepted by the public as consumers of the past.

Introduction: Adaptation and the Battle of, and for, and over, and within the Public Humanities

Adaptation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
The Creation

Abstract This introduction to the special issue of Adaptation devoted to adaptation and the public humanities focuses on the ways the once-anodyne term ‘public humanities’ has become more sharply politicized and contested over the past few years. In many ways, adaptation, which generates new versions and new readings of old texts instead of cancelling, erasing, or unpublishing them, offers the possibility of transcending the conflicts in contemporary culture. But the creation and the study of adaptations offer not a retreat from the culture wars but an array of new tools for waging them more productively by reframing them in ways that lead to more open and fruitful dialogue on the subjects proposed by the essays in this issue: theatrical performances cast for the public good, the costs of performing adapted versions of oneself or of encouraging adaptation-induced tourism, the ecological implications of adaptation, and the shifting valence of adaptation when it is practiced by public figures and posthuman agents.

scholarly journals Controlling Goods or Promoting the Public Good: Choices for Special Collections in the Marketplace

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-63
Author(s):  
Michelle Light
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Rare Books

For the past few decades, many special collections repositories in the United States have charged licensing or use fees to those patrons who use or publish special collections materials for commercial purposes. In fact, about fifteen years ago the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries charged an ad hoc committee, the Licensing and Reproductions of Special Collections Committee, to “create a reasoned and articulate defense of libraries’ right to charge licensing fees for commercial uses of their materials.”2 The Committee noted that, historically, libraries allowed scholars to publish freely from the content they . . .

scholarly journals Vaccination ethics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Giubilini
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Herd Immunity ◽  
Major Area ◽  
Coercive Measures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Harm Prevention ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract   Vaccination decisions and policies present tensions between individual rights and the moral duty to contribute to harm prevention. This article focuses on ethical issues around vaccination behaviour and policies. It will not cover ethical issues around vaccination research. Sources of data Literature on ethics of vaccination decisions and policies. Areas of agreement Individuals have a moral responsibility to vaccinate, at least against certain infectious diseases in certain circumstances. Areas of controversy Some argue that non-coercive measures are ethically preferable unless there are situations of emergency. Others hold that coercive measures are ethically justified even in absence of emergencies. Growing points Conscientious objection to vaccination is becoming a major area of discussion. Areas timely for developing research The relationship between individual, collective and institutional responsibilities to contribute to the public good of herd immunity will be a major point of discussion, particularly with regard to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Situating Ethics in Online Mourning Research: A Scoping Review of Empirical Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
David Myles ◽  
Maria Cherba ◽  
Florence Millerand
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Public Disclosure ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Data Sensitivity

In the past decade, social media have put mourning practices at the forefront of daily life in ways that challenge assumptions made about the public disclosure of information often construed as being highly intimate. This article examines how researchers conceive online mourning in empirical studies and how such conceptions inform (or not) methodological and ethical decisions. Through a scoping review, we identified 40 empirical papers addressing online mourning. Our analysis shows that, while online mourning practices have overwhelmingly been problematized in terms of privacy and publicness within the current literature, ethical issues relating to their analysis have been scarcely addressed in empirical research. In line with Foucault’s work on the dispositif, we then examine the performative role of privacy and data sensitivity in the context of online mourning research (notably in relation to consent procurement) and discuss our findings in light of emerging trends in context-based ethics.

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