ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the 'internalisation' of habitus under the term 'embodiment'. It provides an addendum of qualitative depth of the public injecting habitus. This aspect of embodiment was most apparent during environmental visual assessments of injecting environments in which participants provided a verbal running commentary on how the relevant space was utilised to conduct injecting episodes. The embodiments were informed by reflexive street-based practice and were completed by movement and motion that were intuitive, familiar and made fluid by incarnate proficiency. These features of embodiment became apparent during separate visits with eight individuals to different injecting environments and in the assorted demonstrations provided by the relevant participants. The embodiment of place concerns the spatial awareness of urban settings and the way in which environments become extensions of the body as participants seek concealed places to administer drugs. Embodiment also extended to the acceptance of environmental conditions that were 'taken for granted' during the process of injecting practice.
