Post-Intercultural Communication Research: The Ecological Turn and the Humanism-Posthumanism Continuum
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The ecological turn in intercultural communication research understands human environmental degradation as a cultural product, parallel to colonial attitudes. In reaction to this, the ecological turn sees humans as an equal part of nature. This requires a radical disruption of previous thinking, often embodied in posthumanist philosophies. However, posthumanism can also be seen as a continuum to humanism, providing a more consistent framework for the aims of humanism. Humanist research on intercultural communication has always been less concerned with emphasizing the peculiarities of culture and more concerned with how human beings can free themselves from cultural constraints, develop and evolve. Posthumanist thinking pushes culture further aside and opens up to a post-intercultural communication research that explores human potentials and responsibilities in the ecological turn.
Author: Dominic Busch
Institution: Universität der Bundeswehr München
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411396502