BUSLACCHI Maria Elena
Contact details
Social anthropologist, postdoctoral researcher
Doctorate in Social and Historical Anthropology from EHESS, Centre Norbert Elias and the University of Genoa (Italy)
Functions
Post-doctoral researcher
Member of Observatory of cultural audiences and practices MESRI/AMU
Researcher associated with the project CARGO - Sensitive figures on the Mediterranean crossing
Info : cargo.hypotheses.org
Academic work
2024 - 2026: coordination of surveys
Stories and labels from the sea
Governance and practices in the city-coast relationship
and
The territorial impact of the Olympic Games and the Cultural Olympiads
as part of the Audiencewinner of the Amidex 2023 Transfer call for projects
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2022 - 2023 : Spreading scientific culture in the Aix-Marseille region. CSTI players, practices and audiences.
2021-22: The historical re-enactments in north-western Italy. Ethnographic survey and participation in the national inventory of reconstructions (ICPI - Istituto centrale patrimonio immateriale of the Ministry of Culture / SIMBDEA - Società italiana per la museografia e i beni demo-etno-antropologici)
2021 : The professional reintegration through heritage. Study of the ACTA VISTA system at Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseille (Lab'Citoyenneté SoMuM)
2019-20 : Public survey on Allez Savoir - Festival des Sciences Sociales (Marseille, 26-29/9/2019), EHESS
the Museums of Marseille, "Residence for Young Researchers in Museums" programme of the Ministry of Culture (LAMES, UMR 7305)
2018-20 : European Capitals of Culture in the Mediterranean La Valletta 2018, Matera-Basilicata 2019, Rijeka 2020, Eleusis 2021 (Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Genoa)
2017-18 : Governance of cultural institutions - qualitative study as part of the ANR CURRICULA (Centre Norbert Elias, EHESS)
2015-17 : Cultural policies and territorial governance in a local authority - Genoa City Council (Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Genoa)
2012-16 : The social impact of cultural policies. Comparison between the GeNova04 and MP2013 European Capitals of Culture. Thesis in Social and Historical Anthropology (EHESS and Università degli studi di Genova)
2014 : Public survey on the MP2013 inaugural exhibition The gender bazaar - women and men in the Mediterranean at the MuCEM (LAMES, UMR 7305)
2013-14 : MP2013 - Audiences and cultural practicesunder the supervision of Sylvia Girel (LAMES, UMR 7305)
Areas of research
Sociology of cities and regions
Socio-anthropology of institutions,
and public policy
Cultural policies and governance
Audiences and cultural practices
Heritage
Research-creation, creative methods, alternative writing in the social sciences and humanities
Productions
Complete list of publications: https://ehess.academia.edu/MariaElenaBuslacchi
List of publications on HAL
Presentation at a conference
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Marine Cordier, Magali Sizorn. Sport, art, culture and the local area. The challenges of the Games, Centre for Research in Social Sciences, Sport and the Body (University of Toulouse); Health, Education and Disability Research Group (University of Montpellier); Apsy-V Research Group (University of Nîmes), December 2025, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-05504926⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Cross-Border Narratives in European Capitals of Culture. UNeECC Annual Conference 2025: Cultural Bridging: European Territories and Cultural Metamorphoses, UNeECC, October 2025, Avignon, France. ⟨hal-05505166⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Matthieu Demory, Elisa Ullauri Lloré. Participation in enquiry: a cross-section of views on action research in the cultural landscape of Marseilles. Journée Jeunes Chercheurs, Particip'Arc, Jun 2024, Marseille, France. ⟨hal-04611404⟩
Constance de Gourcy, Maria Elena Buslacchi. The sensitive crossing: towards a socio-history of absence in the Mediterranean. Creation "in exile": art, justice and migration, Adélie Chevée, Melissa Moralli, 2024, Marseille (FRANCE), France. ⟨hal-04925701⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Scientific, technical and industrial culture at the territorial level. Data-SHS Week, Clément De Belsunce, Dec 2023, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-04458308⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Resistance, involvement and co-construction. Modes of participation in two European Capitals of Culture: Marseille-Provence2013 and Matera-Basilicata2019. VILLES EN SCÈNE, SEMINAR #01: PARTICIPATION OF THE INHABITANTS AND ACTORS OF THE TERRITORY, Magali Sizorn; Marine Cordier; Françoise Lucchini; Alice Sohier; Cristina S. Algarra, Dec 2023, Rouen, France. ⟨hal-04516430⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. The South from elsewhere. EASA MED Workshop – Crossing the divide: Exploring Mediterranean places across Mediterranean, European and Middle Eastern Anthropology, EASA, October 2023, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-04439331⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Elisa Ullauri Lloré. The Marseilles seafront. Sketches of a transformation experienced, lived and imagined. Drawing from memories - ANR CORES, Bernard Guelton; Teriitutea QUESNOT; Aurélie HERBET; Sophie MARIANI-ROUSSET; Xavier BOISSARIE; Antida GAZZOLA, Sep 2023, Sorbonne University (Paris), France. ⟨hal-04516625⟩
Science blog article
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Jessica Cendoya Lafleur, Camilla Lo Schiavo, Elisa Ullauri Lloré. Accesso per tutti? Politiche culturali per la prima infanzia in Europa: diritti, governance, pratiche e misurazione. 2025. ⟨hal-05484055⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Lisa George. Narratives and the Shaping of Port Areas. Three Questions for Maria Elena Buslacchi. 2025. ⟨hal-05479901⟩
Other scientific publication
Sylvia Girel, Maria Elena Buslacchi, Elisa Ullauri Lloré. La Friche la Belle-de-Mai: an open cultural venue… but for which audience(s)? 2025. ⟨hal-05509107⟩
Book chapter
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Reimagining Europe through culture: the legacy and prospects of the ECoC programme at a crossroads. Thomas Bisiani; Sonia Prestamburgo; Adriano Venudo. Architecture and the City. Learning from European Capitals of Culture, EUT – Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2025, 978-88-5511-621-3. ⟨hal-05248657⟩
Constance de Gourcy, Eleni Demetriou, Maria Elena Buslacchi, Saïd Belguidoum. Introduction. La Méditerranée traversée. Récits et figures sensibles de la mobilité, Presses Universitaires de Provence, pp.5-18, 2025. ⟨hal-05313899⟩
Constance De Gourcy, Maria Elena Buslacchi. Déclinaisons méditerranéennes de la traversée. Presses Universitaires de Provence. La Méditerranée traversée. Récits et figures sensibles de la mobilité, , 2025, Sociétés contemporaines, 9791032005569. ⟨hal-05089986⟩
Constance de Gourcy, Eleni Demetriou, Maria Elena Buslacchi, Saïd Belguidoum. The crossing: a world of links apart in the field of migration studies? Introduction. Presses Universitaires de Provence. La Méditerranée traversée Récits et figures sensibles de la mobilité, Presses Universitaires de Provence, https://presses-universitaires.univ-amu.fr/fr/actualites/mediterranee-traversee, 2025, 9791032005569. ⟨hal-05089975⟩
Nicolas Maisetti, Sylvia Girel, Maria Elena Buslacchi. The Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM) in Marseilles: successes and et controverses autour d'un équipement culturel de développement territorial. Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Musées d'art et développement territoriorail, pp.177-198, 2015, 2753542074. ⟨hal-04732601⟩
Publications
Saïd Belguidoum, Constance De Gourcy, Maria Elena Buslacchi, Eleni Demetriou. The Mediterranean through and through Narratives and sensitive figures of mobility. Presses Universitaires de Provence. 2025, 9791032005569. ⟨hal-05089979⟩
Article in a magazine
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Juliette Dutel, Romane Tiaso, Alexia Gignon. Bringing together the arts and sport, or «muscle and mind». Esprit Critique: International Journal of Sociology and Social Sciences, 2024, 34 (1), ⟨10.58079/122bn⟩. ⟨hal-05248674⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Who’s celebrating? An ethnography of the production and reception of historical re-enactments in north-western Italy. Terrains et Travaux: Journal of Social Sciences, 2024, No. 43 (2), pp. 155–182. ⟨10.3917/tt.043.0155⟩. ⟨hal-05322662⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Every City a Capital. The Spread of European Capitals of Culture. *Revue Marketing Territorial*, 2023, 11. ⟨hal-05262581⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Maria Pina Usai. A Creative Approach to the Port-City Relationship: the Case of Zones Portuaires in Genoa. European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2021, ⟨10.6092/issn.2612-0496/12129⟩. ⟨hal-03858080⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Between fieldwork and public policy practice: a two-way transfer of knowledge. Terrains/Théories, 2020, 12, ⟨10.4000/teth.3043⟩. ⟨hal-05322652⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. An anthropology of the politics of the European Capitals of Culture seen from the 'margins'. A comparative ethnography of GeNova04, Marseille-Provence 2013 and Matera-Basilicata 2019. French Ethnology, 2020, 179, pp.529-544. ⟨10.3917/ethn.203.0529⟩. ⟨hal-03858056⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. GeNova04: the making of a new identity heritage in Genoa. Culture et Musées, 2019, 33, pp.61-86. ⟨10.4000/culturemusees.2845⟩. ⟨hal-02614250⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. GeNova04: the making of a new identity heritage in Genoa. Culture et Musées, 2019, 33, pp.61-86. ⟨10.4000/culturemusees.2845⟩. ⟨hal-03254221⟩
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Transforming Places, Changing Deities: Spatial and Symbolic Negotiation in Marseille. Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography, 2018, 7. ⟨hal-02614252⟩
Conference poster
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Matthieu Demory, Elisa Ullauri Lloré. Rethinking public participation in the light of the neighbourhood. Festival de Muséologie, May 2024, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04611415⟩
Sound
Elisa Ullauri Lloré, Maria Elena Buslacchi. Radio Utopia - Museum 2123 (2023). 2023. ⟨hal-04771794⟩
Report
Maria Elena Buslacchi, Luca Mobilio, Sergio Goffredo, Tim Fox, Assya Pavlova. Ex-post evaluation of the 2019 European Capitals of Culture. European Commission. 2020. ⟨hal-03867391⟩
Thesis
Maria Elena Buslacchi. Capitali di quale cultura? : The social impact of major events, from GeNova04 to MP2013. Social Anthropology and Ethnology. EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales); University of Genoa, 2016. Italian. ⟨NNT: 2016EHES0730⟩. ⟨tel-05090925⟩