Naming No Man’s Land (eBook)

Postcolonial Toponymies

Paul Carter (Autor)

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2024
XIX, 251 Seiten
Springer Nature Switzerland (Verlag)
978-3-031-60688-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case-studies in Western Australia, the study develops a lively dialogue with international critical toponymy theory and with older etymological approaches to place renaming and legitimation. The author shows how renaming raises fundamental questions of meaning, reference and cross-cultural equivalence. 

Recognising the 'sense of place' values that accrue to placenames, Carter argues that placenames have a creative as well as discursive function: they are talking points that bring places into being. For this reason, to decolonize toponymy involves a postcolonial poetics. Naming No Man's Land argues for a practical, community-shaped toponymic poetics that escapes from the binarist logic of imposition/erasure, showing that, when the principle that 'places are made after their stories' is followed, new creative mechanisms of co-existence can emerge. A must read for anyone engaged in postcolonial studies, creativity studies, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, historical ethnography, eco-criticism, environmental humanities, (Australian) Aboriginal studies, and related disciplines.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.9.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 251 p. 4 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Australian Aboriginal Studies • Creativity • Decolonisation • Ethnolinguistics • Indigenous Placenames • postcolonial studies • Sociolinguistics • Toponymy
• ISBN-10: 3-031-60688-4 / 3031606884
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-60688-5 / 9783031606885