ABSTRACT
Space and place are, besides bodies, an integral part of physical cultural lives: we are, without a doubt, thoroughly emplaced (Pink, 2007). I began my interrogations into space in physical cultural studies (PCS) with an examination of an everyday mundane space – a locker room. Its everydayness, however, belied a profound connection to people’s lives, their bodies and spatial practices. Locker rooms, I found had a regime of Archi-Texts and Body-Texts that worked intertextually to (re)produce proper and clean spaces and proper and clean citizens – violations were minimized, monitored, regulated, inspected, ‘tracked’. I labelled the techniques to maintain propriety in locker rooms processes of ‘healthification’ (Fusco, 2006).
