Place naming, identities and geography : critical perspectives in a globalizing and standardizing world / Gerry O'Reilly, editor.
This book presents research on geographical naming on land and sea from a wide range of standpoints on: theory and concepts, case studies and education. Space and place naming or toponymy has a long tradition in the sciences and a renewed critical interest in geography and allied disciplines includi...
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[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Approaching place naming narratives
- Part I: Challenging conceptual and theoretical approaches to place naming
- Assessing the validity of critical toponymy perspectives for understanding human perception of places: An analytical framework
- Legacies and place naming: Perspectives from Korea and Japan
- Place naming and neotoponymy: French experiences through the lens of a Theoretical Framework
- Geographical Names in Argentina: Present and Challenges
- Toponymy, Scale and the Change of Scale. A Geographical and Linguistic Challenge
- The mystery of hydronomy in the land of Israel
- United Nations capacity building in toponymy
- Part II: Approaches to implementing standardization of place names
- Standardization of geographical names on land and sea in Slovenia
- The New Zealand geographic board and the contested nature of place names in New Zealand
- Theorising multiple place names in Southern Africa
- Conflicts and challenges in the standardisation of geographical names in Spain
- Language policies in the field of toponymy: Perspectives on Spain
- Urban toponymy in Turkey
- Cultural crossroads in toponymy: Case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Part III: Geo-histories, legacies, and toponymy transitions
- Giving identity to space through (re)naming: Practice of village renaming in the period of the republic of Turkey
- Geo-history of the toponymy of Mohcs Plain, SW Hungary
- Recreating the future: Modern residential neighbourhood and existing toponyms in Sarajevo
- Street-naming in Malta as a geo-cultural and political exercise as seen from local sources
- Toponymic study of the map of New Lusitania: A Portuguese cartographic monument from the 18th century
- Names and naming of collective farms in (the) Soviet Estonia
- Part IV: Toponymy: Narratives, languages, culture, and education
- Reading Irelands colonial and postcolonial toponymic landscapes
- Translating topographies: Brian Friels approach to language, landscape, and toponymy in Ireland
- The overlaid past: The politics of space and memory in Gibraltars Doubling street naming principle
- From historical to new place names. The case of Italy
- Geographical names represent a memory of places: Case study in Bandung Basin, West Java, Indonesia
- The vital question of placenames and naming of places in geographical education: Concepts, activities, and questions for reflection
- Part V: The relationship between geographical naming and cultural politics
- The nexus between geographical naming, place, and the politics of power.