About the Journal
The Interculture Journal serves to promote and intensify academic exchange on the theory and practice of intercultural communication and interculturality.
The editors and the advisory board are fundamentally based on an interdisciplinary understanding of the field of research, so that the journal represents an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of current theories, methods, and fields of practice. In this context, cultural studies, humanities, and social science papers are supplemented by contributions from the fields of economics and natural sciences, among others. In terms of content, the Interculture Journal is oriented towards constructivist and processual ideas of culture as a living world, as an object of discourse and as a challenge for horizons of perception and experience.
The journal is also interested in intercultural issues beyond national cultures, language communities and concepts of ethnicity and includes general phenomena, perceptions and questioning of intercollectivity as a subject of investigation.
As an online journal, the Interculture Journal has been committed to the idea of an open and free exchange of information and opinions since its foundation and therefore makes all issues available for free download as an open access publication.
The issues are published via the platforms of the Thuringian University and State Library Jena. All contributions are first publications. Articles and reviews can be submitted at any time. The texts undergo a double-blind peer review process for quality assurance.
History of the Journal
The Interculture Journal was founded in 2002 by Jürgen Bolten at the Department of Intercultural Business Communication at Friedrich Schiller University Jena under the title Interculture-Online. From 2007, the journal was published as Interculture Journal under the editorship of Jürgen Bolten and Stefanie Rathje (HTW Berlin), who co-edited the journal until 2022. In 2022, Christoph Vatter (University of Jena) joined the editorial team. Since 2023, he has edited the Interculture Journal together with Dominic Busch (University of the Bundeswehr Munich).
