This book of essays combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting pre-colonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.
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Lauren Beck is a professor of visual and material culture studies at Mount Allison University, Canada, and specializes in place name science and identity. Her publications include Canada's Place Names and How to Change Them and Firsting in the Early Modern Transatlantic World.
Grace A. Gomashie is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture, Mount Allison University, Canada, where she researches topics on equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization. She has published in onomastics, Indigenous language maintenance, Spanish varieties, community studies, and translation studies.
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.In a postcolonial context, naming often serves as a bitter reminder of past harms through commemorative naming practices, whether through a system of baptismal names or a former colonys approach to dealing with the names that the colonizer left behind. This volume assembles authors who hail from formerly colonized regions of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia to engage with this problem of decolonizing names in the twenty-first century from a global perspective. The book also points to what strategies have had more success than others while envisioning the tools needed for progress in the future.Offering a useful framework with approaches that can easily be used across other geographical contexts, this volume is suitable for scholars and students interested in decolonization, identity, and naming practices. This book of essays combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting pre-colonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781032540214
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Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.In a postcolonial context, naming often serves as a bitter reminder of past harms through commemorative naming practices, whether through a system of baptismal names or a former colony's approach to dealing with the names that the colonizer left behind. This volume assembles authors who hail from formerly colonized regions of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia to engage with this problem of decolonizing names in the twenty-first century from a global perspective. The book also points to what strategies have had more success than others while envisioning the tools needed for progress in the future.Offering a useful framework with approaches that can easily be used across other geographical contexts, this volume is suitable for scholars and students interested in decolonization, identity, and naming practices. 166 pp. Englisch. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781032540214
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.In a postcolonial context, naming often serves as a bitter reminder of past harms through commemorative naming practices, whether through a system of baptismal names or a former colonys approach to dealing with the names that the colonizer left behind. This volume assembles authors who hail from formerly colonized regions of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia to engage with this problem of decolonizing names in the twenty-first century from a global perspective. The book also points to what strategies have had more success than others while envisioning the tools needed for progress in the future.Offering a useful framework with approaches that can easily be used across other geographical contexts, this volume is suitable for scholars and students interested in decolonization, identity, and naming practices. This book of essays combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting pre-colonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781032540214
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