Carte, désignations territoriales, sens commun géographique : les "noms de pays" selon Lucien Gallois

Chamboredon, Jean Claude

doi:10.3406/rural.1988.3221

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“…For instance, there were pays that organised themselves around a small town, some along a valley, and others covered an agricultural terroir, or a type of landscape. 10 More recently, researchers have expanded this archeological approach by using GIS for a more rigorous quantifying and mapping of toponyms, even on an entire city scale. 11 Alternatively, an archeology of vernacular toponyms has been used to track environmental change and reconstruct past land use in contexts as different as the Bolivian Andes and the Swiss Alps.…”

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Place Naming asDispositif: Toward a Theoretical Framework

2016

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Recent critical toponymies have convincingly demonstrated that studying place names also reveals much about geopolitics and power relations. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework for interpreting these toponymies, in order to better decipher, theorise, and compare the many very rich case studies in the field. Our first argument is that the focus of enquiry should be place naming processes rather than place names themselves. We then show that place naming is a dispositif in the Foucauldian sense. This allows us to build a framework that distinguishes between (a) four types of geopolitical contexts, from which place naming processes tend to stem; (b) four types of technologies that are commonly used; and (c) three types of actors. Lastly, we identify the preferential combinations and nexuses between these building blocks of place naming contexts, technologies, and actors.Mohamed Bouazizi was the Tunisian fruit seller whose self-immolation on 17 December 2010 triggered uprisings in the Arab world. Very soon afterwards, he was commemorated in his hometown of Sidi Bouzid, in the capital Tunis, and in Paris, the capital of the former colonial power, by naming streets after him. While referring to the same person, and to the same event he inspired, the naming processes and the places named after him differed strongly in Sidi Bouzid, Tunis, and Paris. In his hometown, the main thoroughfare now bears the name of its most famous son. In Tunis, Bouazizi's name replaced the Boulevard du 7 novembre, which had celebrated Ben Ali's deposition of Bourguiba, as early as 17 February 2011. In Paris, a small section of the Avenue de la Sibelle (14 th arrondissement)where the sidewalk widensprovided a niche for the brand-new Place Mohamed Bouazizi, 1 which the Tunisia-born Parisian mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, inaugurated on 30 June 2011. The different natures of these places draw attention to the different contexts and objectives for naming a place after Bouazizi: The revolutionary context in Tunisia points to naming the town's main landmark after a local,

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Place Naming asDispositif: Toward a Theoretical Framework

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“…Siegfried, quant à lui, « en arrive finalement […] au mystère des personnalités ethniques » pour expliquer « (qu'il) y a des tempéraments provinciaux, départementaux, communaux ; il y a plus exactement encore […] des tempéraments politiques répondant à ces profondes individualités naturelles que sont les 'pays' de France (pp. 5-6) » (Chamboredon, 1988).…”

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“…Regarding the historical and geographical aspects of these French rural so called pays seeGallois 1908 andChamboredon 1988. …”

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Place Naming and Neotoponymy: French Experiences Through the Lens of a Theoretical Framework

Giraut

2023

Key Challenges in Geography

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The social, political, cultural and economic dimensions of toponymy are expressed in the act of naming, that is, in the contradictory production of toponyms. The place naming is thus an object of toponymy distinct from the place name itself. Its study from the point of view of motivations and representations has been developed in the social sciences, and in particular in cultural and political geography. The study of the naming of places presupposes the observation and documentation of the process, and therefore focuses on neotoponymy. Such neotoponymy is both the study of new place names and the corpus formed by them. In addition to collections of names whose meaning and origin can be worked on, it offers, by definition, information on its mode of production, its actors and on possible controversies or debates related to it. Neotoponymy is the result of a process of substitution or addition (renaming, plurinaming) or of nominations of emerging places. Depending on the context, the type of places and the motivations linked to it, issues and techniques will be different. The contemporary history of France since the Revolution offers an abundance of neotoponymies from successive or simultaneous contexts that will allow us to test a theoretical framework on place naming.

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Carte, désignations territoriales, sens commun géographique : les "noms de pays" selon Lucien Gallois

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Place Naming asDispositif: Toward a Theoretical Framework

Place Naming asDispositif: Toward a Theoretical Framework

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