conflict antiquities

While the matter of subsistence crime or crimes of necessity by people who have been displaced by political violence has a far longer history, questions, misinformation and disinformation about i...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/illicit-trafficking-of-cultural-objects-by-forced-migrants-profitable-to-violent-political-organisations-and-corrupt-officials-intensified-by-failed-refugee-policy/

It has been more than one hundred and twenty months since Russia invaded Ukraine. It has been more than twenty four months since Russia intensified its invasion, instituting a genocidal programme...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/ukraine-donbas-cultural-property-criminals-responses-russia-aggression-invasion-occupation/

Convicted criminal, notorious propagandist, genocidal extremist and paramilitary fighter Maxim Fomin, whose nom de guerre was Vladlen Tatarsky, was assassinated in St. Petersburg on the evening o...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/propagandist-fighter-maxim-fomin-and-the-supply-of-metal-detectors-by-artefact-hunters-for-mine-clearing-by-russias-forces-in-ukraine/

I am delighted to announce that, from today and for the next two years, I’m going to be an Associate Researcher on a project that’s investigating care for and exploitation of heritage during ...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2023/03/01/jpi-ch-chse-decope-ukraine-destructive-exploitation-and-care-of-cultural-objects-and-professional-public-education-for-sustainable-heritage-management/

While I was assessing open-source data on metal-detecting for cultural goods and trying to generate “low estimates” of the numbers of artefact-hunters in various territories, in 2017, the “...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/united-kingdom-metal-detecting-quantitative-analysis-open-source-data-metal-detecting-cultural-goods-estimate/

In the course of researching artefact-hunting in Eastern Europe, I found netnographic evidence of transnational trafficking and analyses by ethical collectors of markets in Western Europe for loo...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/western-european-collection-drive-exploitation-of-the-eastern-european-archaeological-record/

In the course of researching artefact-hunting in Eastern Europe, I found a discussion of the activity among drug-producers in Ukraine, as both a problem for some and a practice of others. This ma...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/ukraine-artefact-hunting-cannabis-farming/

The Covid-19 pandemic offers a novel lens through which to analyse the attitudes of artefact-hunters towards personal and public health precautions in particular and science, society and the stat...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2022/08/01/artefact-hunters-social-attitudes-personal-public-health-precautions-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic/

Maksym Butkevych, a pacifist Christian anarchist, human rights worker and journalist, who volunteered to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces to combat Russia’s war of aggression and genocide, has b...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/human-rights-worker-and-anti-imperialist-fighter-maksym-butkevych-has-been-captured-by-russian-invading-forces/

Russia’s state media-spread, government official-reinforced programme/manual/handbook of “de-Nazification ”, “de-Ukrainisation/de-Ukrainianisation ” and “de-Europeanisation ” in Ukr...

https://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/russia-ukraine-war-destruction-cultural-property-intent-genocide-urbicide-domicide/