1st Edition
Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century Place, Identity, and Agency
Introduction: Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century
Lauren Beck and Grace A. Gomashie
1. Geotags and Check-Ins as Renaming Practices of Indigenous Digital Activism: The Gidmt’en Checkpoint Case
Anna Mongibello
2. Decolonizing Place Names in Vietnam: An Overview of Names with Linguistic Diversity
Phùng Thị Thanh Lâm
3. Ghanaian Surnames at the Crossroads: Empirical Insights
Osei Yaw Akoto and Maxwell Mpotsiah
4. Policy, Education, and Storytelling: Approaches to Decolonizing Canadian Toponymy
Lauren Beck
5. Decolonizing Names and Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Naming Practices Among the Urhobo and Yoruba Ethnic Groups in Nigeria
Joy Aruoture Omoru and Israel Abayomi Saibu
6. Translanguaging Names, Decolonizing Language: What Makes a Name "Chinese"?
Federica Guccini
7. Aareck to Zsaneka: African American Nominals, Un/naming, and Aesthetic Justice
Jerrilyn McGregory
8. Same Old, Same Old: How Postcolonialism Didn't Change Things in Singapore
Peter K. W. Tan
Biography
Lauren Beck is a professor of visual and material culture studies at Mount Allison University, Canada, and specializes in place name science and identity. Her publications include Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them and Firsting in the Early Modern Transatlantic World.
Grace A. Gomashie is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture, Mount Allison University, Canada, where she researches topics on equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization. She has published in onomastics, Indigenous language maintenance, Spanish varieties, community studies, and translation studies.
