ABSTRACT
This chapter interrogates the rigid dichotomization of place and placelessness and how this rigidity may ultimately influence people's conceptualization of a place's identity. It examines the contents of latrinalia identified across metropolitan Sydney in 2005 and 2014 to highlight: first, the multiple identities of public toilets; second, to question human's role in both the formation and maintenance of place identities; and third, to question if these multiple identities are accepted by the managing authorities and users of these toilet facilities. The chapter focuses on Judith Butler's deconstruction of human identities, followed by a review of literature on place identities. The boundaries of identities are clearly set out and constrained by the names that they are given, and these names in turn restrict the potential multiplicity of performances, compelling singularity and discounting fluidity and constant evolution.
