ABSTRACT
Intercultural capital is the first form of capital that needs to be enhanced in the interest of good-neighbourly relations within the multi-ethnic (or multicultural) neighbourhoods of East Central Europe and beyond. Among the three forms of capital in my concept, intercultural capital is the closest to Bourdieu’s (1986) notion of cultural capital: Bourdieu describes a state as objectified (e.g., textbooks and curricula), institutionalized (e.g., academic qualifications) and embodied (learned and habitual cultural dispositions). Each of these descriptors plays an important role with regard to intercultural capital. The objectified state in particular shapes the embodied state, which Pollmann (2009: 539-540) describes as the “personal reservoir of intercultural experiences and skills (e.g. experience of living abroad, intercultural friendships, and language skills) that enable the respective individual to competently engage in intercultural encounters.”1
