Like all human activities, policy-making is performed through but also despite persons' subjectivity. Subjectivity is the engine of human life, inherent to society that policies and political actions cannot ignore. Over the last forty years, the need to comprehend subjectivity has progressively consolidated.This volume provides a decisive contribution in this direction. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital.The principle of cultural pluralism claims that an unconstrained space of freedom qualifies each and every subjective act of meaning; this possibility turns any policy into a plural space of interpretation. The performativity of sensemaking claims that generalised cultural meanings are reproduced over time and within social groups through the very fact of being enacted. The semiotic capital concept claims that cultural meanings fostering socio-political and civic development are scarce and unevenly distributed within society. For this reason, they need to be the target of strategic policy actions aimed at impacting culture. weiterlesen