Critical toponymies : the contested politics of place naming /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2009. |
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| Description: | xi, 291 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Re-materialising cultural geography |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7847429 |
Table of Contents:
- Towards critical toponymies
- Naming as norming: 'race', gender and the identity politics of naming places in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Naming the past: the significance of commemorative street names
- Street-naming and nation-building: toponymic inscriptions of nationhood in Singapore
- Naming and placing the other: power and the urban landscape in Zanzibar
- The Aloha State: place names and the anti-conquest of Hawai'i
- Irish place-names: post-colonial locations
- Proclaiming place: towards a geography of place name pronunciation
- Street names as memorial arenas: the reputational politics of commemorating Martin Luther King Jr in a Georgia county
- Indexing the great ledger of the community: urban housing, numbering, city directories and the production of spatial legibility
- Planning and revamping urban toponymy: ideological alterations in the linguistic landscaping of Vuosaari suburb, eastern Helsinki
- Toponymic silence and Sámi place names during the growth of the Norwegian nation state
- Virtual place naming, internet domains, and the politics of misdirection: the case of www.martinlutherking.org
- Index
