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Today’s cultures no longer correspond to the old ideas of closed and uniform national cultures. (…) Cultures are deeply intertwined and permeate each other. Ways of life no longer end at the borders of national cultures, but transcend them and can also be found in other cultures. The new entanglements are a consequence of migration processes as well as worldwide (im)material communication systems and economic interdependences.

Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (1995): Migration und Kultureller Wandel. Schwerpunktthema der Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch, 45. Jg., 1. Vierteljahr.

Wolfgang Welsch (born 1946) is a German philosopher and advocate of transcultural approaches.

The transcultural approach emerged from criticism of the intercultural approach and attempts to develop it further. One of its central characteristics is that it does not conceive of cultures as separate units, but rather as networked, mixed and dynamic. It also rejects the idea of cultural geographies. One of the criticisms of this approach, however, is that it does not take power relations into account.

Laila Abu-Er-Rub et al. (2019): Engaging Transculturality. Concepts, Key Terms, Case Studies.

1995