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<p>Acknowledgements xi<br /><i>Frédéric GIRAUT and Myriam HOUSSAY-HOLZSCHUCH</i></p> <p><b>Chapter 1 Naming the World: Place-Naming Practices and Issues in Neotoponymy 1</b><br /><i>Frédéric GIRAUT and Myriam HOUSSAY-HOLZSCHUCH</i></p> <p>1.1 Political/critical toponymy: an emerging field at the core of territorialization issues 2</p> <p>1.2 Political toponymy: a recent history? 4</p> <p>1.3 On the agenda of political/critical toponymy: contradictory promotion of functional, market and inclusive corpuses 8</p> <p>1.4 Theory-in-progress: beyond hegemony and dispositif, a toponymic situationism? 11</p> <p>1.5 References 18</p> <p><b>Chapter 2 Commemorative Place Naming: To Name Places, to Claim the Past, to Repair Futures 29</b><br /><i>Derek H ALDERMAN</i></p> <p>2.1 A renaming moment in Paris 29</p> <p>2.2 Place naming as commemorative work 30</p> <p>2.3 Narrative capacities 32</p> <p>2.4 Affective capacities 34</p> <p>2.5 Material capacities 36</p> <p>2.6 Reparative possibilities and limits 39</p> <p>2.7 References 42</p> <p><b>Chapter 3 The Named, Lived and Contested Environment: Towards a Political Ecology of Toponymy 47</b><br /><i>Sébastien BOILLAT</i></p> <p>3.1 Introduction 47</p> <p>3.2 The decline of toponymy as a substitute for archeology 49</p> <p>3.3 Toponymy and ecology: another divorce, another reconciliation 51</p> <p>3.4 From cultural heritage to environmental ethics: indigenous place names and beyond 53</p> <p>3.5 The disputed toponymy: critical perspectives 55</p> <p>3.6 Towards a political ecology of toponymy 57</p> <p>3.7 Conclusion 59</p> <p>3.8 References 60</p> <p><b>Chapter 4 Naming the Conquered Territories: Colonies and Empires -- Beneath and Beyond the Exonym/Endonym Opposition 65</b><br /><i>Frédéric GIRAUT</i></p> <p>4.1 Toponymic colonization of settler frontiers (long-distance metropolitan projections): the fictitious model of the Mysterious Island and its extensions 67</p> <p>4.2 Toponymic imperialism: the model of Roman super(im)position and Ottoman condescension 77</p> <p>4.3 Who's in, who's out? Colonial hybridizations and relativity of the concepts of exonym and endonym 81</p> <p>4.4 References 87</p> <p><b>Chapter 5 "Addressing the World": A Political Genealogy of the Street Address 93</b><br /><i>Reuben ROSE-REDWOOD, Anton TANTNER and Sun-Bae KIM</i></p> <p>5.1 Introduction 93</p> <p>5.2 Street addressing as a technology of power 94</p> <p>5.3 Genealogies of the street address 97</p> <p>5.4 The future of street addressing and the making of a geocoded world 102</p> <p>5.5 References 104</p> <p><b>Chapter 6 Toponymic Commodification: Thematic Brandscapes, Spatial Naming Rights and the Property--Name Nexus 109</b><br /><i>Jani VUOLTEENAHO</i></p> <p>6.1 Introduction 109</p> <p>6.2 Thematic namescapes in branding neighborhoods: From Sun Cities to Icebar Saigon and a Brooklyn with distinction 112</p> <p>6.3 Buying into and contesting spatial naming rights 118</p> <p>6.4 Discussion: the property--name nexus as a commodification frontier 125</p> <p>6.5 References 128</p> <p><b>Chapter 7 The Toponymy of Tourism and Leisure: General Framework and Lessons from France 135</b><br /><i>Christophe GAUCHON</i></p> <p>7.1 Introduction 135</p> <p>7.2 The new names of tourist places 138</p> <p>7.3 The evolution of the status and uses of toponyms: from designator to brand 140</p> <p>7.4 Touristic toponymy as an element of territorial restructuring 142</p> <p>7.5 Conclusion 145</p> <p>7.6 References 146</p> <p><b>Chapter 8 Transport Toponymy: For a Critical Study of the Toponomy of Places of Mobility 149</b><br /><i>Lucas DESTREM</i></p> <p>8.1 A significant but still understudied fact 150</p> <p>8.2 Research perspectives 159</p> <p>8.3 References 170</p> <p><b>Chapter 9 The Toponymy of Informal Settlements in the Global South 175</b><br /><i>Melissa WANJIRU-MWITA</i></p> <p>9.1 Introduction 175</p> <p>9.2 Toponymy and informality -- a theoretical background 177</p> <p>9.3 Naming patterns in Nairobi's informal settlements 178</p> <p>9.4 Actors involved in the toponymy of informal settlements 186</p> <p>9.5 Conclusion -- towards a toponymic framework for informal settlements 186</p> <p>9.6 References 187</p> <p><b>Chapter 10 The Map, the Name and the Territory: Toponymic Struggles in the Era of Cartographic Post-Sovereignty 191</b><br /><i>Matthieu NOUCHER</i></p> <p>10.1 Place names, an issue of information sovereignty 191</p> <p>10.2 Cartographic post-sovereignty and place names: when the geoweb blurs the map 193</p> <p>10.3 Toponymic struggles of yesterday and today: the exemplary case of Guiana 199</p> <p>10.4 Research agenda: when the geoweb brings place names into the era of post-sovereignty 210</p> <p>10.5 References 213</p> <p><b>Chapter 11 What Africa Might Contribute to Critical Toponymy 217</b><br /><i>Michel BEN ARROUS and Liora BIGON</i></p> <p>11.1 Official toponymy and others 219</p> <p>11.2 A problem of places 226</p> <p>11.3 A problem of hegemony 235</p> <p>11.4 Making sense: a heuristic of practices 245</p> <p>11.5 Final remarks 250</p> <p>11.6 References 253</p> <p><b>Conclusion 261</b><br /><i>Myriam HOUSSAY-HOLZSCHUCH and Frédéric GIRAUT</i></p> <p>List of Authors 273</p> <p>Index 275</p>

<p><b>Frédéric Giraut</b> is a political geographer. He studies borders and place naming in different contexts. He currently heads the "Naming the World" UNESCO chair in inclusive toponomy at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.</p> <p><b>Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch</b> is a geographer and professor at Grenoble Alpes University and the PACTE laboratory in France. Her research focuses on post-apartheid South Africa, and South African cities from a social and political geography perspective, as well as on critical epistemologies and pedagogies.</p>

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