Contents

Doris Bachmann-Medick
The Trans/National Study of Culture: A Translational Perspective

Ansgar Nünning
Towards Transnational Approaches to the Study of Culture: From Cultural
Studies and Kulturwissenschaften to a Transnational Study of Culture

I. Conceptualizations and Histories

Dipesh Chakrabarty
Place and Displaced Categories, or How We Translate Ourselves into Global
Histories of the Modern

Jon Solomon
The Transnational Study of Culture and the Indeterminacy of People(s) and
Language(s)

Andreas Langenohl
Scenes of Encounter: A Translational Approach to Travelling Concepts in the
Study of Culture

Doris Bachmann-Medick
From Hybridity to Translation: Reflections on Travelling Concepts

Matthias Middell
Is there a Timetable when Concepts Travel? On Synchronicity in the Emergence
of New Concepts Dealing with Border-Crossing Phenomena

Christina Lutter
What Do We Translate when We Translate? Context, Process, and Practice as
Categories of Cultural Analysis

II. Knowledge Systems and Discursive Fields

Boris Buden
Translation and the East: There is No Such Thing as an ‘Eastern European Study
of Culture’

Christa Knellwolf King
Australian Cultural Studies: Intellectual Traditions and Critical
Perspectives

Rainer Winter
Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies and the Transnational
Challenge

Thomas Weber
Translating ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’: National Assignment and
Transnational Misunderstanding

Birgit Mersmann
D/Rifts between Visual Culture and Image Culture: Relocations of the
Transnational Study of the Visual

Notes on Contributors
Index