“Sixth Avenue is now a memory”: Regimes of spatial inscription and the performative limits of the official city-text

Rose‐Redwood, Reuben

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.11.002

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“…At one level, the act of attributing names to streets and buildings produces the coherent and ordered urban space required by modern governmentality (Rose-Redwood 2008;RoseRedwood, Alderman, and Azaryahu 2010). At another level, the decisions about the names attributed to places, streets, and buildings are embedded in broader structures of power and authority.…”

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“…They may be invoked in all sorts of mundane contexts such as addresses, maps, road signs, or directions given to strangers (Alderman 2002). The performative act of reciting place names (Kearns and Berg 2002;Rose-Redwood 2008) contributes to the ongoing reproduction of official history and collective memory within everyday life and spaces.…”

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“…One response is a refusal to use an officially imposed name. As Kearns and Berg (2002) and Rose-Redwood (2008) argue, official toponyms lose much of their performative impact if they are not spoken. Hence resistance is often expressed through the adoption of an alternative or parallel set of place names.…”

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“…50 percent of those questioned considered that the persistence of Moghioroş was due to habit, continued use of the original name, or lack of awareness that the name had changed (Table 2). Moreover this situation is not unique: both De Soto (1996) and Rose-Redwood (2008) suggest that habit may account for the persistence of the former names of streets in Berlin and New York.…”

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Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

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Young

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Habit, memory, and the persistence of socialist-era street names in post-socialist Bucharest, Romania. Abstract:The critical study of toponymy has paid considerable attention to the renaming of urban places following revolutionary political change. Such renaming is intended to institutionalize a new political agenda through shaping the meanings in everyday practices and landscapes.Renaming, however, may not always be successful and this article examines this issue with reference to a market in Bucharest, Romania. Originally named Piaţa Moghioroş during the socialist era to commemorate a leading Communist Party activist, the market was renamed in the post-socialist period. Yet, more than two decades on, the original name remains in widespread everyday use. Using a mixed-method approach we seek to advance the critical toponymies literature by exploring the persistence of the socialist-era name within everyday practice. Although many authors have highlighted the issue of popular resistance to an unpopular renaming we find little evidence of conscious resistance, and instead we explore the importance of habit within everyday practices as an explanation, drawing on an understanding of habit derived from socio-cognitive psychology. This perspective proposes that habits are stable and hard to break if the broader context in which they are situated is stable and we suggest that this explanation, rather than popular contestation, has more to offer in understanding the persistence of the toponym Piaţa Moghioroş. We thus highlight the importance of considering how the "users" of place names react to the changes of such names and create their own meanings in relation to them in ways unintended by elites.

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Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

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Young

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Place names have performative power to shape place (Rose-Redwood, 2008). On this point, a number of social theorists are in agreement.…”

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Pushed off the map: Toponymy and the politics of place in New York City

Madden

2017

Urban Studies

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Abstract:This article examines conflicts over neighborhood renaming and the politics of place. Toponymy, or the practice of place naming, is central to the constitution of place, and neighborhood renaming is a pervasive urban strategy. But despite its prevalence, the role of neighborhood toponymic conflict in processes of urban restructuring has not been given sustained engagement from urban scholars. This article uses archival and ethnographic data from an area in Brooklyn, New York to argue that contemporary neighborhood renaming facilitates uneven local development. Real estate developers and residents of expensive private housing use toponymy to legitimize their privileged positions, while public housing residents experience the same toponymic change as a form of symbolic displacement. Conflicts surrounding neighborhood renaming should therefore be seen as a symbolic dimension to struggles over resources, property, identity, and belonging in urban space.

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Landscapes of Memory and Socially Just Futures

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Inwood

2013

The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography

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“Sixth Avenue is now a memory”: Regimes of spatial inscription and the performative limits of the official city-text

Cited by 71 publications

References 48 publications

Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

Pushed off the map: Toponymy and the politics of place in New York City

Landscapes of Memory and Socially Just Futures

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