Gwilym Lucas Eades

The Geography of Names (eBook, PDF)

Indigenous to post-foundational

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides cutting edge theoretical and critical analysis of current debates within toponomy. This book examines the use of naming as a primary tool for making sense of complex lifeworlds and livelihood systems, arguing that the concept of the name is inherently spatial and visual in nature. It positions itself at the intersection of traditional approaches to toponymy, that focus on cartographic and technical aspects of place naming, and critical approaches, that examine the political aspect of place name practices, power and people. It opens up new spaces of enquiry beyond these two perspectives to explore the idea of naming as applied to the world at large, focusing on names as referents applied to a range of phenomena including not only places but also people, objects, and abstract ideas. This book provides a naming toolbox that is at one philosophical, religious, political, practical, and scholarly, and contains examples from Canada, the Middle East and the UK and indigenous communities. It will be of great interest to those working in geography, cartography, anthropology, and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317504597
• Artikelnr.: 45475181

Autorenporträt

Gwilym Lucas Eades is Lecturer in Human and Environmental Geography in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway University of London, where he is also on the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) management board and director of the GeoVisual Methods Lab (GVML).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Geographical Naming and Necessity
2. Indigeneity and Geographical Naming
3. Religion and Geographical Naming
4. The Neurogeography of Names
5. The Political Geography of Names
6. Neogeographies of the Name
7. Toward a Geographical Name-Tracking-Network