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.
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