Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century
Place, Identity, and Agency
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About this book
This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.
In a postcolonial context, naming often serves as a bitter reminder of past harms through commemorative naming practices, whether through a system of baptismal names or a former colony's approach to dealing with the names that the colonizer left behind. This volume assembles authors who hail from formerly colonized regions of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia to engage with this problem of decolonizing names in the twenty-first century from a global perspective. The book also points to what strategies have had more success than others while envisioning the tools needed for progress in the future.
Offering a useful framework with approaches that can easily be used across other geographical contexts, this volume is suitable for scholars and students interested in decolonization, identity, and naming practices.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century
- 1 Geotags and Check-Ins as Renaming Practices of Indigenous Digital Activism: The Gidmt’en Checkpoint Case
- 2 Decolonizing Place Names in Vietnam: An Overview of Names with Linguistic Diversity
- 3 Ghanaian Surnames at the Crossroads: Empirical Insights
- 4 Policy, Education, and Storytelling: Approaches to Decolonizing Canadian Toponymy
- 5 Decolonizing Names and Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Naming Practices Among the Urhobo and Yoruba Ethnic Groups in Nigeria
- 6 Translanguaging Names, Decolonizing Language: What Makes a Name “Chinese”?
- 7 Aareck to Zsaneka: African American Nominals, Un/naming, and Aesthetic Justice
- 8 Same Old, Same Old: How Postcolonialism Didn’t Change Things in Singapore
- Index