Foreword

This section brings together a number of essays in the fields of cultural, social, literary and language/linguistics theories currently in progress within and outside Australia, which are variously informed by its cultural, historical, and geographical background. Ranging from second-language teaching, translation, singing and performance, social policy-oriented design workshops, feminist ecocricitism, and Italy-Australia cultural (dis)similarities the contributions focus on the idea of space – in a metaphorical, psychological, and geographical sense – to question research contexts and aims.