Paul Carter: Naming No Man¿s Land
Naming No Man¿s Land
Buch
- Postcolonial Toponymies
- Springer Nature Switzerland, 09/2024
- Einband: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783031606878
- Bestellnummer: 11974036
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Auflage: 2024
- Gewicht: 468 g
- Maße: 216 x 153 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.9.2024
- Serie: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.
Paul Carter
Naming No Man¿s Land
EUR 147,93*