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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Naming the World: Place-Naming Practices and Issues in Neotoponymy -- 1.1. Political/critical toponymy: an emerging field at the core of territorialization issues -- 1.2. Political toponymy: a recent history? -- 1.3. On the agenda of political/critical toponymy: contradictory promotion of functional, market and inclusive corpuses -- 1.4. Theory-in-progress: beyond hegemony and dispositif, a toponymic situationism? -- 1.5. References |
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Chapter 2. Commemorative Place Naming: To Name Places, to Claim the Past, to Repair Futures -- 2.1. A renaming moment in Paris -- 2.2. Place naming as commemorative work -- 2.3. Narrative capacities -- 2.4. Affective capacities -- 2.5. Material capacities -- 2.6. Reparative possibilities and limits -- 2.7. References -- Chapter 3. The Named, Lived and Contested Environment: Towards a Political Ecology of Toponymy -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The decline of toponymy as a substitute for archeology -- 3.3. Toponymy and ecology: another divorce, another reconciliation |
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3.4. From cultural heritage to environmental ethics: indigenous place names and beyond -- 3.5. The disputed toponymy: critical perspectives -- 3.6. Towards a political ecology of toponymy -- 3.7. Conclusion -- 3.8. References -- Chapter 4. Naming the Conquered Territories: Colonies and Empires -- Beneath and Beyond the Exonym/Endonym Opposition -- 4.1. Toponymic colonization of settler frontiers (long-distance metropolitan projections): the fictitious model of the Mysterious Island and its extensions -- 4.2. Toponymic imperialism: the model of Roman super(im)position and Ottoman condescension |
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4.3. Who's in, who's out? Colonial hybridizations and relativity of the concepts of exonym and endonym -- 4.4. References -- Chapter 5. "Addressing the World": A Political Genealogy of the Street Address -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Street addressing as a technology of power -- 5.3. Genealogies of the street address -- 5.4. The future of street addressing and the making of a geocoded world -- 5.5. References -- Chapter 6. Toponymic Commodification: Thematic Brandscapes, Spatial Naming Rights and the Property-Name Nexus -- 6.1. Introduction |
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6.2. Thematic namescapes in branding neighborhoods: From Sun Cities to Icebar Saigon and a Brooklyn with distinction -- 6.2.1. A pre-neoliberal piece of toponymic place branding: the housing and leisure idyll of Sun City, Arizona -- 6.2.2. Public-private partnering in Helsinki: revamping the "Sun Bay" suburb toponymically -- 6.2.3. A South-East Asian real estate hotspot read toponymically: Vinhomes Central Park -- 6.2.4. A coda on ownership rights and thematically named brandscapes -- 6.3. Buying into and contesting spatial naming rights |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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6.3.1. Quasi-privatization through and for naming rights sales |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Giraut, Frédéric
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| ISBN |
9781394188284 |
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1394188285 |
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1394188307 |
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9781394188307 |
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