The Politics of Place Naming
Giraut, Frederic (University of Geneva, Switzerland) / Houssay-Holzschuch, Myriam (Grenoble Alpes University, PACTE laboratory, France)
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 involve collective and individual relationships to space, whether functional or imaginary, as well as the identities related to them. Name traces also differ together with their inscription within landscapes and history. Names constitute a heritage, they bear witness, they mark places and...