Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place NamingLawrence D. Berg, Jani Vuolteenaho This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. Illustrated with a global range of local and national studies, this ground-breaking 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. |
Contents
Race Gender and the Identity Politics | 19 |
Figures | 20 |
The Significance of Commemorative Street | 53 |
Toponymic Inscriptions | 71 |
Power and the Urban | 85 |
Place Names and the Anticonquest | 101 |
administrative units ahupuaa | 107 |
Postcolonial Locations | 137 |
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Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming Jani Vuolteenaho No preview available - 2016 |
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