Jani Vuolteenaho

Critical Toponymies

The Contested Politics of Place Naming
Herausgeber: Berg, Lawrence D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. The contributors guide the reader into struggles over toponymy in a multitude of national and local contexts across Europe, North America, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. In a ground-breaking and multidisciplinary fashion, this volume illuminates the key role of naming in the colonial silencing of indigenous cultures, canonization of nationalistic ideals into nomenclature of cities and topographic maps, as well as the formation of more or less fluid forms of postcolonial and urban identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780754674535
• ISBN-10: 0754674533
• Artikelnr.: 35632323

Autorenporträt

Dr Lawrence D. Berg is from the University of British Columbia, Canada and Dr Jani Vuolteenaho is from the University of Helsinki, Finland

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Towards critical toponymies, Jani Vuolteenaho and Lawrence D.
Berg; Naming as norming: 'race', gender and the identity politics of naming
places in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Lawrence D. Berg and Robin A. Kearns;
Naming the past: the significance of commemorative street names, Maoz
Azaryahu; Street-naming and nation-building: toponymic inscriptions of
nationhood in Singapore, Brenda S. Yeoh; Naming and placing the other:
power and the urban landscape in Zanzibar, Garth Andrew Myers; The Aloha
State: place names and the anti-conquest of Hawai'i, Douglas Herman; Irish
place-names: post-colonial locations, Catherine Nash; Proclaiming place:
towards a geography of place name pronunciation, Robin A. Kearns and
Lawrence D. Berg; Street names as memorial arenas: the reputational
politics of commemorating Martin Luther King Jr in a Georgia county, Derek
H. Alderman; Indexing the great ledger of the community: urban housing,
numbering, city directories and the production of spatial legibility,
Reuben S. Rose-Redwood; Planning and revamping urban toponymy: ideological
alterations in the linguistic landscaping of Vuosaari suburb, eastern
Helsinki, Jani Vuolteenaho and Teri Ainiala; Toponymic silence and Sámi
place names during the growth of the Norwegian nation state, Kaisa Rautio
Helander; Virtual place naming, internet domains, and the politics of
misdirection: the case of www.martinlutherking.org, Derek H. Alderman;
Index.