The Politics of Place Naming
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The Politics of Place Naming

Naming the World

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The Politics of Place Naming

Naming the World

About this book

Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that involve collective and individual relationships to space, whether functional or imaginary, as well as the identities related to them. Name traces also differ together with their inscription within landscapes and history.

Names constitute a heritage, they bear witness, they mark places and thus contribute to the foundation of territories. Beyond place names, place naming reveals the functions and uses of names, but also the contradictory meanings that society bestows on them.

With this framework in mind, that of critical toponymy, The Politics of Place Naming considers different points of view when studying place naming. These vary from linguistics to political and cultural geography, via history, anthropology, cartography, urban planning, digital humanities, subaltern studies and many other disciplines. This book honors this transversality by taking such studies into account in its examination of place naming.

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Yes, you can access The Politics of Place Naming by Frederic Giraut,Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Demography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781789451153
eBook ISBN
9781394188284
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Demography
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chapter 1. Naming the World: Place-Naming Practices and Issues in Neotoponymy
  7. Chapter 2. Commemorative Place Naming: To Name Places, to Claim the Past, to Repair Futures
  8. Chapter 3. The Named, Lived and Contested Environment: Towards a Political Ecology of Toponymy
  9. Chapter 4. Naming the Conquered Territories: Colonies and Empires – Beneath and Beyond the Exonym/Endonym Opposition
  10. Chapter 5. “Addressing the World”: A Political Genealogy of the Street Address
  11. Chapter 6. Toponymic Commodification: Thematic Brandscapes, Spatial Naming Rights and the Property–Name Nexus
  12. Chapter 7. The Toponymy of Tourism and Leisure: General Framework and Lessons from France
  13. Chapter 8. Transport Toponymy: For a Critical Study of the Toponomy Places of Mobility
  14. Chapter 9. The Toponymy of Informal Settlements in the Global South
  15. Chapter 10. The Map, the Name and the Territory: Toponymic Struggles in the Era of Cartographic Post-Sovereignty
  16. Chapter 11. What Africa Might Contribute to Critical Toponymy
  17. List of Authors
  18. Index
  19. EULA