Naming No Man's Land: Postcolonial Toponymies

by Paul Carter

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. He...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031606876
• ISBN13: 9783031606878
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan