The Politics of Place Naming

The Politics of Place Naming
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9781394188291
ISBN-13 : 1394188293
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Place Naming by : Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch

Download or read book The Politics of Place Naming written by Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that involve collective and individual relationships to space, whether functional or imaginary, as well as the identities related to them. Name traces also differ together with their inscription within landscapes and history. Names constitute a heritage, they bear witness, they mark places and thus contribute to the foundation of territories. Beyond place names, place naming reveals the functions and uses of names, but also the contradictory meanings that society bestows on them. With this framework in mind, that of critical toponymy, The Politics of Place Naming considers different points of view when studying place naming. These vary from linguistics to political and cultural geography, via history, anthropology, cartography, urban planning, digital humanities, subaltern studies and many other disciplines. This book honors this transversality by taking such studies into account in its examination of place naming.


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