forthcoming/in print

Book: Dâmaso, M. (Ed.) The European Union as a Global Cultural Power. De Gruyter. Series: Transnational Approaches to Culture. In print; out in June 2025. Preorder it here.

Book: Sarikakis, K., Dâmaso, M., Lähdesmäki, T., Ramos Arenas, F., Vlassis, A. (Eds). The Governance of Competitiveness: Rebooting the European Film Industry. Palgrave. Manuscript delivered.

Chapter: Dâmaso, M. (forthcoming) The EU’s Disjointed Engagement with the Cultural Sustainability Agenda: Rhetoric versus Action. In Dâmaso, M. (ed.) The European Union as a Global Cultural Power. De Gruyter.

Chapter: Dâmaso, M. (forthcoming) Can Cultural Diplomacy be Decolonised? The Potential and Pitfalls of Cultural Relations. In Vickery, J,. Cull, N., MacDonald, S. (eds.). Understanding Cultural Diplomacy: Inside International Cultural Relations, Elgar.

Chapter: Dâmaso, M., Albornoz, L. García Leiva, T., Vargas Miranda, I., Vlassis, A., Rossato Fernandes, M., Coenen, L., Akcali, E., Bhlil, M., Doğu Erdede, R.. Mapping the European Film Industry in the Argentinian, Brazilian, Mexican, South African, South Korean and Turkish Markets: Roles, Trends, and Gaps. In Sarikakis, K., Dâmaso, M., Lähdesmäki, T., Ramos Arenas, F., Vlassis, A. (Eds). The Governance of Competitiveness: Rebooting the European Film Industry. Palgrave.

special issues of journals

Special Issue: Dâmaso, M. and Rex, Bethany (Eds.) Regenerative Cultural Policy. International Journal of Cultural Policy. Available here.

cultural policy, cultural diplomacy/relations

Article: We must talk: audience pluralisation as a regenerative path to the management of cultural disagreement, International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 31, issue 4 – READ or DOWNLOAD

Policy brief: Ramadani, Gentiana, Chatziefraimidou, Angeliki, Sarikakis, Katharine, Sganga, Caterina, Turan, Pelin, Lähdesmäki, Tuuli, Dâmaso, Mafalda, Hiltunen, Kaisa, Erdede, Ruken, Akcali, Elif, Behlil, Melis, Albornoz, Luis, Garcia Leiva, Maria, Vargas Miranda, Isabela Morena, Biltereyst, Daniel, Ramos Arenas, Fernando, Willems, Engelart, Caballero Ruiz de Martín-Esteban, Lauram (2025) Policy briefings deriving from WP2-5 M24. REBOOT project – READ or DOWNLOAD

Chapter: Dâmaso, M. (2024) Imagining a new gender contract for cultural rights. In Imagining a new gender equality contract: Feminism as a Progressive Glue. Petö, Andrea, Thissen, L. and Clavaud, A. (Eds). Palgrave – READ or DOWNLOAD

Blog Post: Common Challenges, Joint Solutions: Disinformation, Media Policy, and the Future of UK-EU Relations. British Foreign Policy Group.
Dâmaso, M 2024 – READ

Article: CultureForHealth and well-being. On culture’s potential contribution to the economy of well-being. Economia della Cultura Issue Speciale/2023, marzo.
Dâmaso, M, Zbranca, R, 2023. DOWNLOAD.

Report: CultureForHealth report: scoping review of culture, well-being and health interventions and their evidence, impact, challenges and policy recommendations for Europe. Culture Action Europe/CultureForHealth Consortium.
Zbranca, R, Dâmaso, M, Blaga, O, Kiss, K, Dascal, M, Yakobson, D, Pop, O, 2022 – DOWNLOAD or READ

Report for cultural organisations: Culture for Health and Well-being Compendium: A Guide for Practitioners. Culture Action Europe/CultureForHealth Consortium. Dâmaso, M, Dowden, S., Smith, C., 2022 – DOWNLOAD or READ

Report: Scoping culture and heritage capital report. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (UK Government) and UKRI. Kaszynska, P, Coyle, D, Dwyer, E, Lawton, R, Riganti, P, Watson, S, Dâmaso, D and Wang, Y, 2022 – READ

Reframing Cultural Policy. In: Towards a Social Democratic Century? How European and Global Social Democracy Can Chart a Course Through the Crises. Eds: Hoffman de Moura, K., Skrzypek, A., Wilson, R. Brussels: Foundation for European Progressive Studies, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Social Europe. Dâmaso, M, 2022 – DOWNLOAD

Report: EUNIC Knowledge Sharing Workshop Report. Afghanistan – Providing Professional Perspectives for Displaced Afghan Cultural Workers, EUNIC Global, Brussels
2022 – READ or DOWNLOAD

Blog post: EU International Cultural Relations: Redefining the Relationship between Culture and Diplomacy, USC Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Dâmaso, M, 2021 – READ

Report: Implementing the EU Strategy for International Cultural Relations – Toward a New Paradigm, CPD Perspectives,USC Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Dâmaso, M, 2021 – READ

Research for CULT Committee – The situation of artists and cultural workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union: Background Analysis, European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, Brussels. Culture Action Europe & Dâmaso, M, 2021 – DOWNLOAD

Research for CULT Committee – The situation of artists and cultural workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union: Policy Recommendations, European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, Brussels. Dâmaso, M & Culture Action Europe, 2021 – DOWNLOAD

The EU’s Dualistic Regime of Cultural Diversity Management: The Concept of Culture in the Creative Europe Program (2014–2019; 2021–2027) and in the Strategy for International Cultural Relations (2016–), Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy. Dâmaso, M & Murray, A, 2021 – AVAILABLE HERE AND HERE

From the cultural and foreign policies of western European far-right parties to the European Union’s 2015–2018 Work Plan for Culture – identifying and opposing nativism
in International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2018 – DOWNLOAD or REQUEST BY EMAIL

Beyond Us versus Them – The role of Culture in a divided Europe
German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Culture and Foreign Policy Programme (InstitutsfürAuslandsbeziehungen), 2017 – DOWNLOAD (short version)

Morram as estratégias de desenvolvimento de públicos que não são parte de um modelo integrado de criação, programação e políticas publicas, morram! Pim! [trans: May audience engagement strategies that are not part of an integrated model of creation, programming and public policy]
in Fradique, T. (ed.), O Público Vai ao Teatro. Encontros sobre Políticas de Recepção e Envolvimento de Públicos [trans.: The Audience Goes to the Theatre: Meetings about Policies of Audience Reception and Engagement]. Teatro Meia Volta e Depois À Esquerda Quando Eu Quiser
2019 – DOWNLOAD (in portuguese)

Cultural diplomacy and the EU's Foreign Policy (case study on the Joint EEAS/European Commission communication 'Towards an EU Strategy for international cultural relations).
With Michele Fiorillo, Enza Roberta Petrillo, Denis Preshova
Young Academics Network, FEPS, 2017 – DOWNLOAD

The Potential of Culture and the Creative Industries in a Progressive Model of Globalisation
Written in support of the research and policy programme “New Global Progressive Initiative”, FEPS and Fondation Jean-Jaurès, 2017 – REQUEST BY EMAIL

Four observations on The Arts (2015) by Jeremy Corbyn. With David Stevenson, Sara Selwood, Charlotte Bonham-Carter and James Doeser
in Cultural Trends, 2015 – DOWNLOAD

visual culture, contemporary art and international affairs

On Pedro Reyes’ The People’s United Nations (2013–2014)—Overlaps and Disjunctions Between Contemporary Art and International Affairs
in Journal of Arts and International Affairs, 2018 –  LINK

The United Nations Art Collection: Origins, Institutional Framework and Ongoing Tensions
in Routledge Companion to Global Cultural Policy (ed. by Dave O’Brien, Toby Miller, Victoria Durrer, Routledge), 2017  – DOWNLOAD (proof)

On May 1, 2011 (Alfredo Jaar) – Expanding the Original Frame
in Museums and Photography: Displaying Death (ed. by Elena Stylianou and Theopisti Stylianou, Routledge), 2017 – DOWNLOAD

Gerhard Richter's September (2005) – the Politics of Ambivalence
in Terror in Global Narrative: The Aesthetics and Representation of 9/11 in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism (ed. by George Fragopoulos and Liliana Naydan, Palgrave), 2016 – DOWNLOAD

Images against Images – on Goshka Macuga's The Nature of the Beast
in Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Art (ed. by Carla Laban, Leuven University Press), 2013 – DOWNLOAD

Review of Georges Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All
in Visual Studies Journal, 2013 – DOWNLOAD

Review of Jeffrey Edward Green, The Eyes of the People
in Journal of Visual Culture, 2013 – DOWNLOAD