While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This b

Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that in

Naming the places of the world is an essential human act of territorialization. As the subject of conflict or dispute, naming plays out in numerous ways that in

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and p

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. Usin