Critical Toponymies

The Contested Politics of Place Naming

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Jani Vuolteenaho

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Re-materialising Cultural Geography

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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.

Author Biography:

Dr Lawrence D. Berg is from the University of British Columbia, Canada and Dr Jani Vuolteenaho is from the University of Helsinki, Finland Jani Vuolteenaho, Lawrence D. Berg, Robin A. Kearns, Maoz Azaryahu, Brenda S. Yeoh, Garth Andrew Myers, Douglas Herman, Catherine Nash, Derek H. Alderman, Reuben S. Rose-Redwood, Teri Ainiala, Kaisa Rautio Helander.

Release date NZ

September 28th, 2009

Author

Jani Vuolteenaho

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate

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Edited by Lawrence D. Berg

Pages

306

Series

Re-materialising Cultural Geography

Dimensions

156x234x19

ISBN-13

9780754674535

Product ID

8817796

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