Chris Mathieu is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. His research is primarily in the fields of the sociology of work and organisations, and the sociology of the arts, especially where these fields intersect. He has studies and written on film production, film schools, film institutes, and photography, as well as jury-based prize allocation processes at film festivals. He is the editor of Careers in Creative Industries (Routledge) and is Coordinator of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 02 (RN02) on the Sociology of the Arts.Valerie Visanich is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Malta. She is one of the authors of Malta’s National Cultural Policy (2020-2025) and the co-founder of the Malta Sociological Association. Valerie held the position of coordinator of Research Network Sociology of the Arts (RN02) within the European Sociological Association (ESA), between 2017-2019, to which she is currently a board member. She is the author of Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism, Youth in Southern Europe. Her research interests are within the field of Sociology of the Arts, Cultural Policy, Generational studies, and Sociology of Emotions.

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• Chapter 1: Accomplishing Cultural Policy in Europe: connections and illustrations Chris Mathieu and Valerie VisanichSection 1: The commercialization of culture and counter-reactionsChapter 2: Cultural policies in Madrid and Barcelona during the "governments of change" (2015-2019): Towards a post-creative city?Mariano Martín Zamorano Chapter 3: The rise and fall of cultural and creative industries policy in Sweden Katja LindqvistChapter 4: Emerging rationalities in urban cultural policy making processes: challenging market-centred cultural policy in the city of BarcelonaVictoria Sánchez Belando and Matias ZarlengaSection 2: Processes for social inclusion in cultural policiesChapter 5: Crisis as change: new paradigms in cultural policy. The case of Greece.Olga KolokythaChapter 6: Sounds of a Porte Ouverte: How Cultural Policies Encounter Musical Diversity in Southeastern FranceAleysia WhitmoreChapter 7: Mainstreaming Ageing in Austrian Cultural Organisations and Cultural Policy Vera Gallistl, Gerhard Geiger and Tasos ZembylasSection 3: Follow the money? The politics and effects of arts fundingChapter 8: Comparative study of European policies for ethical fundraising in museumsMarie Ballarini and Marek Prokupek Chapter 9: On subject’s side: negotiation of objectives and urban imaginaries in two community projects in the island of MaltaVirginia Monteforte Chapter 10: Developments in visual arts policy: grant distributions, applicants’ characteristics, types of art, and legitimations for grant money in Flanders (Belgium), 1965-2015Julia Peters and Henk RooseSection 4: Good governance and vested interests in cultural policiesChapter 11: The German theatre system and the limited impact of cultural policy on governance and management of public theatres Thomas Schmidt Chapter 12: Artistic quality in the audit societySigrid Røyseng

Chris Mathieu is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. His research is primarily in the fields of the sociology of work and organisations, and the sociology of the arts, especially where these fields intersect. He has studies and written on film production, film schools, film institutes, and photography, as well as jury-based prize allocation processes at film festivals. He is the editor of Careers in Creative Industries (Routledge) and is Coordinator of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 02 (RN02) on the Sociology of the Arts.Valerie Visanich is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Malta. She is one of the authors of Malta’s National Cultural Policy (2020-2025) and the co-founder of the Malta Sociological Association. Valerie held the position of coordinator of Research Network Sociology of the Arts (RN02) within the European Sociological Association (ESA), between 2017-2019, to which she is currently a board member. She is the author of Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism, Youth in Southern Europe. Her research interests are within the field of Sociology of the Arts, Cultural Policy, Generational studies, and Sociology of Emotions.

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• Chapter 1: Accomplishing Cultural Policy in Europe: connections and illustrations Chris Mathieu and Valerie VisanichSection 1: The commercialization of culture and counter-reactionsChapter 2: Cultural policies in Madrid and Barcelona during the "governments of change" (2015-2019): Towards a post-creative city?Mariano Martín Zamorano Chapter 3: The rise and fall of cultural and creative industries policy in Sweden Katja LindqvistChapter 4: Emerging rationalities in urban cultural policy making processes: challenging market-centred cultural policy in the city of BarcelonaVictoria Sánchez Belando and Matias ZarlengaSection 2: Processes for social inclusion in cultural policiesChapter 5: Crisis as change: new paradigms in cultural policy. The case of Greece.Olga KolokythaChapter 6: Sounds of a Porte Ouverte: How Cultural Policies Encounter Musical Diversity in Southeastern FranceAleysia WhitmoreChapter 7: Mainstreaming Ageing in Austrian Cultural Organisations and Cultural Policy Vera Gallistl, Gerhard Geiger and Tasos ZembylasSection 3: Follow the money? The politics and effects of arts fundingChapter 8: Comparative study of European policies for ethical fundraising in museumsMarie Ballarini and Marek Prokupek Chapter 9: On subject’s side: negotiation of objectives and urban imaginaries in two community projects in the island of MaltaVirginia Monteforte Chapter 10: Developments in visual arts policy: grant distributions, applicants’ characteristics, types of art, and legitimations for grant money in Flanders (Belgium), 1965-2015Julia Peters and Henk RooseSection 4: Good governance and vested interests in cultural policiesChapter 11: The German theatre system and the limited impact of cultural policy on governance and management of public theatres Thomas Schmidt Chapter 12: Artistic quality in the audit societySigrid Røyseng

Chris Mathieu is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. His research is primarily in the fields of the sociology of work and organisations, and the sociology of the arts, especially where these fields intersect. He has studies and written on film production, film schools, film institutes, and photography, as well as jury-based prize allocation processes at film festivals. He is the editor of Careers in Creative Industries (Routledge) and is Coordinator of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 02 (RN02) on the Sociology of the Arts.Valerie Visanich is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Malta. She is one of the authors of Malta’s National Cultural Policy (2020-2025) and the co-founder of the Malta Sociological Association. Valerie held the position of coordinator of Research Network Sociology of the Arts (RN02) within the European Sociological Association (ESA), between 2017-2019, to which she is currently a board member. She is the author of Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism, Youth in Southern Europe. Her research interests are within the field of Sociology of the Arts, Cultural Policy, Generational studies, and Sociology of Emotions.

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• Chapter 1: Accomplishing Cultural Policy in Europe: connections and illustrations Chris Mathieu and Valerie VisanichSection 1: The commercialization of culture and counter-reactionsChapter 2: Cultural policies in Madrid and Barcelona during the "governments of change" (2015-2019): Towards a post-creative city?Mariano Martín Zamorano Chapter 3: The rise and fall of cultural and creative industries policy in Sweden Katja LindqvistChapter 4: Emerging rationalities in urban cultural policy making processes: challenging market-centred cultural policy in the city of BarcelonaVictoria Sánchez Belando and Matias ZarlengaSection 2: Processes for social inclusion in cultural policiesChapter 5: Crisis as change: new paradigms in cultural policy. The case of Greece.Olga KolokythaChapter 6: Sounds of a Porte Ouverte: How Cultural Policies Encounter Musical Diversity in Southeastern FranceAleysia WhitmoreChapter 7: Mainstreaming Ageing in Austrian Cultural Organisations and Cultural Policy Vera Gallistl, Gerhard Geiger and Tasos ZembylasSection 3: Follow the money? The politics and effects of arts fundingChapter 8: Comparative study of European policies for ethical fundraising in museumsMarie Ballarini and Marek Prokupek Chapter 9: On subject’s side: negotiation of objectives and urban imaginaries in two community projects in the island of MaltaVirginia Monteforte Chapter 10: Developments in visual arts policy: grant distributions, applicants’ characteristics, types of art, and legitimations for grant money in Flanders (Belgium), 1965-2015Julia Peters and Henk RooseSection 4: Good governance and vested interests in cultural policiesChapter 11: The German theatre system and the limited impact of cultural policy on governance and management of public theatres Thomas Schmidt Chapter 12: Artistic quality in the audit societySigrid Røyseng