{"product_id":"9783031606908","title":"Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture: Postcolonial Toponymies","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture: Postcolonial Toponymies\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eCarter, Paul\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecognising 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. \u003cem\u003eNaming No Man’s Land\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-09-20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031606908\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-60688-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 251\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44542800003212,"sku":"9783031606908","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031606908.jpg?v=1775924903","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031606908","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}