This volume claims that interdisciplinarity and translation constitute the two main ‘challenges’ for cultural studies today. These conceptual issues (‘inter’ and ‘trans’) express themselves within specific historical and ‘cultural’ contexts. Interdisciplinarity is linked with the ongoing process of the institutionalisation of cultural studies in national academies, but also increasingly internationally, comparatively and to a certain extent even globally (cf. cultural studies of ‘global culture’). Translation concerns cultural studies both as an object or product and as a subject or producer of translation processes. Cultural studies is the result of translation, translates and is being translated. The essays in this volume therefore relate these various ongoing cultural, linguistic and institutional translation processes to political and ethical issues of internationalisation and globalisation. The contributions draw their originality and strength from strategically crossing, disciplinary and national boundaries. They deliberately ignore the question of what may be ‘proper’ (to) cultural studies, and instead problematise the notions of ‘propriety’ and ‘belonging’. As a ‘reading practice’ cultural studies, in these pages, is performed through adaptations and combinations of theory and critical practice. The volume should be of interest to everyone concerned with cultural studies’ role in promoting intellectual debate within an increasingly international and ‘globalised’ public sphere.

本卷声称，跨学科和翻译构成了当今文化研究的两个主要 "挑战"。这些概念性问题（"跨 "和 "转"）在特定的历史和 "文化 "背景下表现出来。跨学科性与文化研究在国家学术机构中持续的制度化进程有关，但也越来越多地在国际上、比较上、甚至在某种程度上在全球范围内（参见 "全球文化 "的文化研究）。翻译既是文化研究的对象或产品，又是翻译过程的主体或生产者。文化研究是翻译的结果，翻译和正在被翻译。因此，本卷中的文章将这些正在进行的文化、语言和制度翻译过程与国际化和全球化的政治和伦理问题联系起来。这些文章从战略上跨越了学科和国家的界限，汲取了它们的原创性和力量。他们有意忽略了什么是 "适当的 "文化研究的问题，而是对 "适当 "和 "归属 "的概念提出质疑。作为一种 "阅读实践"，文化研究在这些页面中是通过理论和批评实践的改编和组合来进行的。所有关心文化研究在日益国际化和 "全球化 "的公共领域中促进知识辩论的人，都应该对这本书感兴趣。