Place Naming, Identities and Geography

Introduction: Approaching place naming narratives.- Part I: Challenging conceptual and theoretical approaches to place naming.- Assessing the validity of critical toponymy perspectives for understanding human perception of places: An analytical framework.- Legacies and place naming: Perspectives from Korea and Japan.- Place naming and neotoponymy: French experiences through the lens of a Theoretical Framework.- Geographical Names in Argentina: Present and Challenges.- Toponymy, Scale and the Change of Scale. A Geographical and Linguistic Challenge.- The mystery of hydronomy in the land of Israel.- United Nations capacity building in toponymy.- Part II: Approaches to implementing standardization of place names.- Standardization of geographical names on land and sea in Slovenia.- The New Zealand geographic board and the contested nature of place names in New Zealand.- Theorising multiple place names in Southern Africa.- Conflicts and challenges in the standardisation of geographical names in Spain.- Language policies in the field of toponymy: Perspectives on Spain.- Urban toponymy in Turkey.- Cultural crossroads in toponymy: Case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Part III: Geo-histories, legacies, and toponymy transitions.- Giving identity to space through (re)naming: Practice of village renaming in the period of the republic of Turkey.- Geo-history of the toponymy of Mohács Plain, SW Hungary.- Recreating the future: Modern residential neighbourhood and existing toponyms in Sarajevo.- Street-naming in Malta as a geo-cultural and political exercise as seen from local sources.- Toponymic study of the map of New Lusitania: A Portuguese cartographic monument from the 18th century.- Names and naming of collective farms in (the) Soviet Estonia.- Part IV: Toponymy: Narratives, languages, culture, and education.- Reading Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial toponymic landscapes.- Translating topographies: Brian Friel’s approach to language, landscape, and toponymy in Ireland.-The overlaid past: The politics of space and memory in Gibraltar’s ‘Doubling’ street naming principle.- From historical to new place names. The case of Italy.- Geographical names represent a memory of places: Case study in Bandung Basin, West Java, Indonesia.- The vital question of placenames and naming of places in geographical education: Concepts, activities, and questions for reflection.- Part V: The relationship between geographical naming and cultural politics.- The nexus between geographical naming, place, and the politics of power.