European inventory of
societal values of culture

Cvetičanin, Petrić & Koludrović - Towards a social turn in cultural policy: A policymaker’s guidebook

Cvetičanin, P.,  M. Petrić & I. Tomić Koludrović (2023). Towards a social turn in cultural policy: A policymaker’s guidebook. INVENT publication.

In this publication, intended as a Policymaker’s Guidebook, authors offer some inputs that they hope might be helpful for all those dealing with cultural policy in the contemporary European context. These inputs are based
on the INVENT project findings, one of which was that in European policy documents, the societal values of culture are frequently invoked in a rather abstract manner. This means that they are presented as normative ideals, as a rule, without instruments and indicators that could be used in everyday practice, but frequently also without a detailed definition and contextualisation.
That is why they devoted the central part of this publication to the accounts of nine societal values of culture (diversity, inclusion, participation, well-being, tolerance, solidarity, equality, identity, and creativity), whose descriptions and contextualisations are accompanied by suggestions of sets of instruments and indicators that could facilitate their becoming parts of concrete cultural policy practices. The listed values have gained in prominence over the last quarter of a century, in response to the social changes instigated by the megatrends (globalisation, migrations, digitalisation and rising social inequalities) the effects of which they studied within the INVENT project.