Public debates and controversies over monuments, memorials, and place names have
become contentious focal points for struggles over historical memory and social identity …

Street names are mundane spatial markers that besides providing a sense of orientation
inscribe onto the landscape the ideological ethos and political symbols of hegemonic …

In recent decades, urban policymakers have increasingly embraced the selling of naming
rights as a means of generating revenue to construct and maintain urban infrastructure. This …

What are place names? From where do they originate? How are they structured? What do
they signify? How important are they in our life? This groundbreaking book explores these …

Recently, within the theoretical and methodological framework of critical human geography,
the main focus of the toponymic research has been redirected from the traditional linguistic …

Toponyms, along with other urban symbols, were used as a tool of control over space in
many African countries during the colonial period. This strategy was epitomized by the …

Over the past 2 decades, the critical toponymy literature reached a certain level, both
qualitatively and quantitatively, that it is now both possible and necessary to subject the field …

This paper advances theoretical developments in critical toponymies through focusing on
the renaming of South China Sea Islands and everyday use of names by fishermen in …

This article examines the elite construction of cultural landscapes in Harare. Since assuming
the reins of power in the Zimbabwe African Nation Union (ZANU) in 1977, Robert Mugabe …

This contribution presents two case studies: Poznań in Poland and New Delhi in India,
focusing on the media coverage surrounding the re-naming of one street in each location …