Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century: Place, Identity, and Agency (1) (Routledge Studies in Modern History)

By: Lauren Beck and Grace A. Gomashie

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Synopsis: This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.In a postcolonial context, naming often serves as a bitter reminder of past harms through commemorative naming practices, whether through a system of baptismal names or a former colony’s approach to dealing with the names that the colonizer left behind. This volume assembles authors who hail from formerly colonized regions of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia to engage with this problem of decolonizing names in the twenty-first century from a global perspective. The book also points to what strategies have had more success than others while envisioning the tools needed for progress in the future.Offering a useful framework with approaches that can easily be used across other geographical contexts, this volume is suitable for scholars and students interested in decolonization, identity, and naming practices.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 166 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040423356
Related ISBNs:: 9781032540214, 9781003414773, 9781040423349
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/10/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Lauren Beck and Grace A. Gomashie
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Lauren Beck
Edited by:: Grace A. Gomashie