"When somebody else came to play here, we would throw stones at them...": The reflexions of the embodied experience of growing up on the housing estate
Abstract
This article attempts to examine the issue of the researcher as an insider, in other words as a full member researcher in the context of reflections of other actors with similar experience. In my fieldwork I work with embodied experience of life on the housing estate and I'm trying to put it into a broader context.
In this regard, I use the method of autoethnography that engages the autobiographical element as an integral component of the research. Autoethnography openly works with the personal and emotional sphere of the researcher's relation to the field.
The main concern of this article is - according to several specific textual examples like field notes, dramatic performance and narrative biographic interviews generated in my fieldwork in Prague's housing estates Stodůlky and Černý Most - to point out that there are partly hidden areas of youth culture's everyday life on the housing estates that could be analyzed through reflections of actors' narratives. These rememberings can be understood as alternative places of memory which are shared across these specific youth groups.
In other words, using the concepts of social field or embodied practices and experience, I'm trying to show how the reflections are connected with the actions and practices bound to the social a spatial organization.