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Monograph


Buchczyk, M. (2023). Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum. Bloomsbury.

Edited Volumes

Buchczyk, M., Fonck, M., Usón, T., & Palaić, M. T. (2025). Unearthing Collections: Archives, Time, and Ethics. UCL Press.
Douglas, L., Buchczyk, M., & Joyce, A. (Forthcoming). (Counter) Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Approaches across Disciplines. De Gruyter.

Journal Articles

Buchczyk, M. (2022). Transforming legacies, habits, and futures: reshaping the collection at the Museum of European Cultures. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 28(5), 1–15
Buchczyk, M., & Facer, K. (2020). The Stuff of Contention and Care: Affective Materiality and Everyday Learning in Bristol, UK. City & Society
Buchczyk, M. (2020). Making Certainty and Dwelling through Craft. Journal of American Folklore, 133(528), 178–192
Facer, K., & Buchczyk, M. (2019). Understanding Learning Cities as discursive, material and affective infrastructures. Oxford Review of Education, 45(2), 168–187
Facer, K., & Buchczyk, M. (2019). Towards a research agenda for the ‘actually existing’ learning City. Oxford Review of Education, 45(2), 151–167
Buchczyk, M. (2018). Ethnographic objects on the Cold War front: The tangled history of a London’s museum collection. Museum Anthropology, 41(2), 159–172
Buchczyk, M. et al. (2018). Forging folklore: Curatorial explorations between tradition and innovation. MARTOR. Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review, (22), 129–147
Buchczyk, M. (2016). Dressing and Undressing the House: Rethinking objects in and out of households. Home Cultures, 13(3), 255–282
Buchczyk, M. (2015). Heterogeneous Craft Communities. Journal of Museum Ethnography, (28), 28–49
Buchczyk, M. (2014). To weave or not to weave: Vernacular textiles and historical change in Romania. Textile, 12(3), 328–345

Selected Book Chapters

Buchczyk, M. & Nicolescu, G. (In press). Beyond ‘neutral’ collecting: Navigating accumulation, loss, coloniality, and socialist friendship in Romania. In: Decolonising Museums in East-Central Europe. E. Lehrer, J. Wawrzyniak & L. Bukowiecki (Eds.). De Gruyter
Buchczyk, M. (In press). Heritage justice reframed: perspectives from the Southern wetlands. In: V. Apaydin, K. Fouseki, D. Francis, J. Gardner, R. King, & S. Perry (Eds.), Critical Heritage and Social Justice: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation in Context. Routledge
Buchczyk, M. (2025). Gendered dimensions of intangible heritage in Europe: The political pasts and presents in Italy and Poland. In: J. Ashton (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Gender. Routledge
Buchczyk, M., Dilger, H., Botvinnik, S., Dadzie, B. E., & Ivanov, P. (2025). Ethnographische Objekte als Akteure. In: H. Dilger, G. Welz, B. Binder, & T. G. Kirsch (Eds.), Public Anthropology: Wissenspraktiken und gesellschaftliche Interventionen der ethnologischen Fächer. Campus Verlag
Buchczyk, M. (2025). Making kin, reanimating relations in the museum collection. In: Collections as Relations: Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures. H. Dilger, B. Göbel, & L.-C. Koch (Eds.). Routledge
Urdea, A. & Buchczyk, M. (2023). Folk Art Reassessed: Towards an Entangled Material Culture in Rural Romania. In: M. H. Beissinger (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore. Oxford University Press
Buchczyk, M. (2022). Diversifying the Collections at the Museum of European Cultures. In: S. Macdonald (Ed.), Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography. Transcript Verlag
Buchczyk, M. (2021). Becoming heritage smart. Negotiating the dilemma of craft practice in a ceramic centre. In: E. C. Paterson & S. Surette (Eds.), Craft and Heritage: Intersections in Critical Studies and Practice. Bloomsbury
Facer, K., Buchczyk, M., et al. (2019). Learning in the Cat’s Cradle. In: R. Barnett & N. Jackson (Eds.), Ecologies for Learning and Practice: Emerging Ideas, Sightings, and Possibilities. Routledge

Other Writing 

Buchczyk, M. (2024). On Threads and Knots: Reweaving Critical Heritage Studies. Available at: https://www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-critical-heritage 
Buchczyk, M. (2023). Airing Out the Carpet. Anthropology News. Available at: https://www.anthropologynews.org/articles/airing-out-the-carpet/ 
Buchczyk, M. & Jethro, D. (2020). Statues Can’t Swim: Heritage Forms Washed Away in Decolonial Currents. Available at: https://www.carmah.berlin/reflections/statues-cant-swim/