This chapter explores how embodied interviewing can offer richer insights into the lived experiences of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) young people in Australia. Traditional, text-heavy methods such as surveys or structured interviews may miss the nuanced, emotional, and relational ways young people express themselves. Drawing on my experience as a Turkish-Australian practitioner working across arts, theatre, and socially engaged practice, I reflect on how creative, embodied methodologies centred on conversation and co-creation can better align with the communicative styles of CALD youth. Rather than treating interviews as extractive or data driven, I propose seeing them as relational encounters where stories unfold dynamically between researcher and participant. In privileging verbal exchange over written response, embodied approaches offer CALD young people a more expansive and affirming way to share their identities and experiences. These methods resist rigid academic conventions and allow for forms of storytelling that feel culturally and personally resonant. While not a prescriptive model, this chapter invites further reflection on how embodied, affective, and conversational practices can challenge dominant research paradigms and foreground voices often marginalised in formal inquiry. Ultimately, it argues that such approaches open space for more inclusive and ethically attuned research with CALD young people.

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Performative Perspectives: Embodied Interviewing in Research with Young CALD Communities

  • Didem Caia

摘要

This chapter explores how embodied interviewing can offer richer insights into the lived experiences of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) young people in Australia. Traditional, text-heavy methods such as surveys or structured interviews may miss the nuanced, emotional, and relational ways young people express themselves. Drawing on my experience as a Turkish-Australian practitioner working across arts, theatre, and socially engaged practice, I reflect on how creative, embodied methodologies centred on conversation and co-creation can better align with the communicative styles of CALD youth. Rather than treating interviews as extractive or data driven, I propose seeing them as relational encounters where stories unfold dynamically between researcher and participant. In privileging verbal exchange over written response, embodied approaches offer CALD young people a more expansive and affirming way to share their identities and experiences. These methods resist rigid academic conventions and allow for forms of storytelling that feel culturally and personally resonant. While not a prescriptive model, this chapter invites further reflection on how embodied, affective, and conversational practices can challenge dominant research paradigms and foreground voices often marginalised in formal inquiry. Ultimately, it argues that such approaches open space for more inclusive and ethically attuned research with CALD young people.