Interculture
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According to Mark Terkessidis , who represents it most succinctly in Germany, the term interculture describes the politics that - in contrast to the normative ideas of the term integration , which for him has "abdicated" - create cultural accessibility for the individuals of a society of "diversity" and " institutional discrimination ”.
Parapolis as a basis
Terkessidis postulates that in view of the developing, multi-parted "Parapolis" it is out of date to regard immigration as a "disruption in the normal course of events". With “Parapolis” he describes an urban juxtaposition of mobile, different and fast-paced life plans in which there is “no longer a common past”, just “loose connection”. The “diversity on the streets” should be the starting point “for a different idea of the German population”: “After all, the composition of the population will not return to what it used to be, even through lamentations. That is the situation and you have to deal with it. As in the past, nothing will happen anyway. ”This change needs to be countered with open-minded measures, whereby many tasks cannot be“ solved ”, but can be“ designed ”and“ managed ”.
Shaping diversity through reorganizing institutions
Institutions provide answers to questions and tasks. The aim is to question the way in which they do this and whether the answers may already be out of date. Terkessidis states: Institutions “don't pay enough attention to cultural characteristics”. Intercultural measures start with actual behavior; they are pragmatic "rules of action" and do not refer to the individual, but to those institutions. They check rules, routines, leadership styles, resources and the type of communication to see whether they do justice to the multiplicity (“the smallest unit of which is the individual as a non-conformist being [...], as a bundle of differences”).
The aim is to change characteristic patterns that do not match (migrant) diversity: “In this country, it is about adapting those who have been added, as it is called in integration through sport , to the“ social and sports structures in Germany ”, and not about trying to change the respective institutions with regard to individual requirements and differences ”. Interculture is the creation of a framework in which individuals can develop - “Unity, unity are fictions. And they are also not worth striving for ”. This does not mean arbitrariness, but requires verifiable goals, time and flexibility to be able to leave the path you have trodden. Such an approach can no longer be adequately described with the term “integration” - “a fear reaction to the reality of multiplicity”: “The concept of integration abdicated 30 years ago.”
reception
According to Andreas Vierecke, editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für Politik , Terkessidis' portrayal of an "interculture" strengthens the optimism for a future worth living in an open society that goes beyond the debates about dominant culture and multiculturalism.
literature
- M. Terkessidis: Interculture . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Terkessidis: Interkultur, p. 126
- ↑ M. Terkessidis: Interkultur, p. 126
- ↑ Andreas Vierecke: Leitkultur? Multicultural? Interculture! Goethe-Institut, January 2011, accessed on May 7, 2017 .