TY - BOOK ID - 83762047 TI - Critical toponymies : the contested politics of place naming AU - Berg, Lawrence D. AU - Vuolteenaho, Jani. PY - 2009 SN - 9780754674535 9781315258843 9781351947251 9781138267756 0754674533 PB - Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Names, Geographical KW - Political geography KW - Toponymy KW - 801.311 KW - 911.3 KW - 801.311 Plaatsnamen KW - Plaatsnamen KW - Geography KW - Toponomy KW - Lexicography KW - Geography, Political KW - Human geography KW - Geographic names KW - Geographical names KW - Place names KW - Placenames KW - Toponyms KW - Names KW - Political aspects KW - Human geography. Cultural geography KW - Dictionaries KW - History KW - Political geography. KW - Political aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:83762047 AB - 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. ER -