Critical Toponymies

The Contested Politics of Place Naming

Jani Vuolteenaho, Lawrence D. Berg, Dr. Mark Boyle , Professor Donald Mitchell

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Routledge
28 September 2009

Place names & gazetteers; Human geography

Series: Re-materialising Cultural Geography

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.

By: Jani Vuolteenaho
Edited by: Lawrence D. Berg
Series edited by: Dr. Mark Boyle, Professor Donald Mitchell, Dr. David Pinder
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780754674535
ISBN 10: 0754674533
Series: Re-materialising Cultural Geography
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 28 September 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming

'Critical Toponymies brings together for the first time under one cover a series of key articles about the control of space through naming practices. From the house to the street to the nation to the globe, place names are laden with human stories, silences, and struggles that continually face off against bureaucratic and linguistic control. If anything, the volume teaches that to name something is not, after all, to know it.' Karen M. Morin, Bucknell University, USA