Introduction

This collection brings together contributions that explore the relationships between language, the body, perception, and social experience. The authors examine how people engage with the world through aesthetic, linguistic and embodied practices, considering topics such as poetic forms of expression, everyday moments of waiting, religious symbolism, sexual and desire-related practices, and acts of resistance and self-positioning. Courageous and innovative perspectives are also found in the ways ideas and resonances are presented as we strive for epistemic diversity also through a plurality of forms and modes of constructing and transmitting knowledge.