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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. 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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783031606878
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-031-60687-8
- Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.09.2024
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2024
- Serie: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 468 g
- Seiten: 251
- Format (B x H x T): 153 x 216 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt