On this page, you will find newsletters, reports, articles, infographics, and other publications from the INVENT project.
CASE STUDIES
Fortress of culture Šibenik.
From cultural heritage management to sustainable social development
Perspectives on Tampere City Cultural Strategy 2030 and its Legacy Project Operaatio Pikanmaa
A case study
Cultural Practices in the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Basic Education, 1985–2014
Les Machines de l’Île de Nantes.
From the workshop of the craftsman and the artist to the event in the city
Benefitting from culture for well-being and positive health.
A case study of ‘working elements’ in cultural interventions in The Netherlands.
CITYLAB010:
A case study investigating the inclusive, participatory, and democratic nature of a citizen initiative platform.
Re-thinking the museum from the bottom-up.
The case of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen’s project ‘Zuid. Boijmans’
Spaces for culture at urban peripheries.
The case of Culture Stations and Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2022
Transnational nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage List as a policy tool in post-war contexts.
The case of Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards
Experiences with the centralisation of culture in Serbia.
Cordoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as contested cultural heritage.
To whom does “World Heritage” belong?
The unanticipated consequences of the “Miró Law” and its negative impact on the Spanish film industry.
Mass tourism, public space, and the regulation of street performance in Barcelona.
Journal Articles, Books & Books Chapters
Article
Does culture improve affective wellbeing in everyday life? An experimental sampling approach
Marc Verboord, Larissa Fritsch, Neta Yodovich, Alysa Karels, Lucas Page Pereira, Eva Myrczik
Poetics 107, December 2024, 101948
Article
Geographical and aesthetic inclusiveness: A new cultural world view? The case of nine European countries
Jordi Sintas Lopez, Tally Katz-Gerro, Jörg Rössel, Simon Walo
International Journal of Intercultural Relations 103, November 2024, 102092
Article
Europeans’ digital cultural participation: Diversification, democratization, barriers, and affordances
Susanne Janssen, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Marc Verboord, Franziska Marquart, Guiseppe Lamberti
Journal of International Communication. Online first 30 September 2024
Article
Understandings of culture: A European bottom-up study using structural topic modelling
Ossi Sirkka, Simon Walo, Semi Purhonen, Marc Verboord, Susanne Janssen, Philippe Bonnet
Socius. Online first 26 September 2024
Article
Who supports the New Left? Evidence from Croatia
Valentina Petrovic
East European Politics. Online first 24 July 2024
Article
Perceptions of a Shared European Culture Increase the Support for the European Union
Valentina Petrovic, Simon Walo, Jörg Rössel, Tally Katz-Gerro, Maria Pilar Lopez Belbeze
Journal of Common Market Studies. Online first 4 June 2024
Article
Cultural practices and socio-digital inequalities in Europe: Toward a unified research framework
Predrag Cvetičanin, Lucas Page Pereira, Mirko Petri, Frederic Lebaron, Željka Zdravković & Inga Tomić-Koludrović
Cultural Sociology. Online first 19 February 2024
Article
Trust repertoires and the reception of institutional responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Europe: A latent class analysis
Marc Verboord
International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Online first 17 January 2024
Article
Exploring the limits and boundaries between cultural practices and political values in contemporary Finland
Sara Sivonen & Riie Heikkilä
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. Online first 26 January 2024
Article
A comparative analysis of religiosity in Croatia and Serbia
Danijela Gavrilović
December 2023
Book
Towards a Social Turn in Cultural Policy: A Policymaker’s Guidebook
Predrag Cvetičanin, Mirko Petrić & Inga Tomić-Koludrović
November 2023
Article
Definitely (not) belonging to culture: Europeans’ evaluations of the contents and limits of culture
Semi Purhonen, Marc Verboord, Ossi Sirkka, Nete Kristensen & Susanne Janssen
November 2023
Article
Tolerants versus traditionalists: Making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodie
Riie Heikkilä & Ossi Sirkka
November 2023
Article
Institutional Trust and Media Use in Times of Cultural Backlash: A Cross-National Study in Nine European Countries
Marc Verboord, Susanne Janssen, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen & Franziska Marquart
July 2023
Article
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe
Tally Katz-Gerro, Susanne Janssen, Neta Yodovich, Marc Verboord & Joan Llonch-Andreu
May 2023
Article
Explaining the digital divide in the European Union: the complementary role of information security concerns in the social process of internet appropriation.
Guiseppe Lamberti, Jordi López Sintas & Jakkapong Sukphan
2023
Transnational nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage List as a policy tool in post-war contexts.
The case of Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards
Chapter
Cultuur in turbulente tijden (DUTCH LANGUAGE)
Sylvia Holla & Susanne Janssen
December 2022
Chapter
Cultuur van en voor iedereen’? Culturele diversiteit en cultuurparticipatie in de migratiesamenleving (DUTCH LANGUAGE)
Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord
September 2022
Article
Missing out on culture—or not: Danes and Finns’ cultural participation, the pandemic, and cultural policy measures.
Eva Myrczik, Riie Heikkilä, Nete Kristensen & Semi Purhonen
August 2022
Article
The social process of Internet appropriation: Living in a digitally advanced country benefits less well-educated Europeans
Guiseppe Lamberti, Jordi López Sintas, & Jakkapong Sukphan
February 2021
Article
EU cultural policy and audience perspectives: how cultural value orientations are related to media usage and country context
Marc Verboord & Nete Nørgaard Kristensen
August 2020
INVENT Reports
INVENT REPORT
Culture, politics, and the taxpayer’s money: Insights from nine case studies on online cultural debates in Europe
April 2023
INVENT REPORT
Inclusive cultural policies and practices across Europe: A report on 27 case studies
January 2023
INVENT REPORT
The influence of globalization and European integration on culture
October 2022
INVENT REPORT
The influence of social inequalities on culture
October 2022
INVENT REPORT
Talking about Culture on Twitter:
A comparative analysis of culture-related topics in nine European countries in 2019 and 2020
July 2021
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