05043nam a22006375i 4500 978-3-031-60688-5 DE-He213 20251030113055.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240920s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031606885 978-3-031-60688-5 10.1007/978-3-031-60688-5 doi HM654 JFC bicssc SOC002010 bisacsh JBCC thema Carter, Paul. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84712 Naming No Man’s Land [electronic resource] : Postcolonial Toponymies / by Paul Carter. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIX, 251 p. 4 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture, 2755-4511 Introduction: practising toponymic decolonisation -- Chapter 1 Relating Country: some recent Noongar placenaming projects -- Chapter 2 Proper Names: differences between Aboriginal and colonial toponymy -- Chapter 3 Naming and Renaming Places: politics, poetics and psychology -- Chapter 4 Decolonising No Man’s land: writing back against the map -- Chapter 5 Making Place: yarning and the protocols of poetic geography -- Chapter 6 Anticipating arrival: migrancy and creative toponymy -- Conclusion: right ways of meeting, their naming and mapping. “This book is likely to revolutionise inclusive approaches to critical toponymy, moving away from the modern fixist paradigm towards the semiotic creative path of a toponymic situationism.” Frédéric Giraut, Professor and UNESCO Chair “Naming the World”, University of Geneve, Switzerland “Carter operates both on the ground, in an intricate and subtle form of empirical attention, and at a high level of stratospheric speculation, where he reflects, connects and imagines fabulous options. The quality of the writing in this book is outstanding.” Nikos Papastergiadis, Professor in Australian Studies, The University of Melbourne, Australia 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 is Professor of Design (Urbanism) at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, a distinguished public artist and sound designer. The Indigenous place renaming projects discussed in Naming No Man’s Land were delivered through the Aboriginal-owned cultural consultancy, Nyungar Birdiyia, of which he is co-director. . Space. 70200 Culture. 59159 Human geography. 58506 Cultural geography. 70578 Sociolinguistics. 69115 Anthropological linguistics. 78715 Ethnology. 58687 Social psychology. 59087 Space and Place in Culture. 70201 Social and Cultural Geography. 70579 Sociolinguistics. 69115 Linguistic Anthropology. 78716 Ethnography. 70800 Social Psychology. 59087 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031606878 Printed edition: 9783031606892 Printed edition: 9783031606908 Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture, 2755-4511 72859 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60688-5 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 63566 63566