After portraying the researchers presented in this book, the editors of this volume also want to reconsider their role and position in the field of intercultural communication. To this end, they have interviewed each other and asked each other questions, against the background of which they have also considered the interculturalists in this book. Christoph Barmeyer is an interculturalist and organizational researcher. For him, culture-specific (work) contexts, as well as intercultural interactions in which actors jointly negotiate meanings and thus new “cultures” are subjects of investigation. His paradigmatic attitude is a constructive one, which does not view cultural differences in interactions as difficulties, but primarily as complementary opportunities that enable actors to experience individual and collective changes and developments and to shape reality. Dominic Busch, as a researcher on culturality and discourse, is interested in the social and discursive construction of understandings of culture. The field of intercultural communication thus becomes a culture-specific societal projection surface on which negotiations of societal discourses on desired and undesired forms of interaction in a diverse and globalized world are negotiated and expressed. We, the editors and authors of this book, Christoph Barmeyer and Dominic Busch, work, teach, and conduct research at universities on intercultural communication. Therefore, when we study interculturalists, we must have a self-reflexive understanding of ourselves as members of the field. Methodologically, this raises some questions: How can we develop an appropriate distance from a field to which we ourselves belong? How can we ensure that through the analysis of the interculturalists portrayed here we do not attest to the field, what we already believed to know anyway? To what extent can we then ensure that we still keep an open mind for new things? Qualitative social research has clear answers to this: These would be the wrong goals anyway, because instead we only have one option: We must understand ourselves as components of the field and reflect on our own situation, position, and perspective to the best of our ability. Even our own self-images are shaped by our self-perception and the perception of our embedding in the field of intercultural communication. In the following two interviews, we, the authors, would like to clarify some facets of this embedding, by answering the questions we posed to the interculturalists in our videos. This way, we outline our own subjective starting position.

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Bridging Interculturality: Interview with Christoph Barmeyer

  • Christoph Barmeyer,
  • Dominic Busch

摘要

After portraying the researchers presented in this book, the editors of this volume also want to reconsider their role and position in the field of intercultural communication. To this end, they have interviewed each other and asked each other questions, against the background of which they have also considered the interculturalists in this book. Christoph Barmeyer is an interculturalist and organizational researcher. For him, culture-specific (work) contexts, as well as intercultural interactions in which actors jointly negotiate meanings and thus new “cultures” are subjects of investigation. His paradigmatic attitude is a constructive one, which does not view cultural differences in interactions as difficulties, but primarily as complementary opportunities that enable actors to experience individual and collective changes and developments and to shape reality. Dominic Busch, as a researcher on culturality and discourse, is interested in the social and discursive construction of understandings of culture. The field of intercultural communication thus becomes a culture-specific societal projection surface on which negotiations of societal discourses on desired and undesired forms of interaction in a diverse and globalized world are negotiated and expressed. We, the editors and authors of this book, Christoph Barmeyer and Dominic Busch, work, teach, and conduct research at universities on intercultural communication. Therefore, when we study interculturalists, we must have a self-reflexive understanding of ourselves as members of the field. Methodologically, this raises some questions: How can we develop an appropriate distance from a field to which we ourselves belong? How can we ensure that through the analysis of the interculturalists portrayed here we do not attest to the field, what we already believed to know anyway? To what extent can we then ensure that we still keep an open mind for new things? Qualitative social research has clear answers to this: These would be the wrong goals anyway, because instead we only have one option: We must understand ourselves as components of the field and reflect on our own situation, position, and perspective to the best of our ability. Even our own self-images are shaped by our self-perception and the perception of our embedding in the field of intercultural communication. In the following two interviews, we, the authors, would like to clarify some facets of this embedding, by answering the questions we posed to the interculturalists in our videos. This way, we outline our own subjective starting position.