33.874, FYI: Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century: Place, Identity, and Agency

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Subject: 33.874, FYI: Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century: Place, Identity, and Agency

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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:31:05
From: Grace Gomashie [ggomashi at uwo.ca]
Subject: Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century: Place, Identity, and Agency

 
The last three decades have resulted in broad efforts to address the
coloniality of the names that designate our communities and the people who
live in or come from them. Calls to consult and give greater voice to
marginalized groups, whether in Australia, Canada, Latin America, or Africa
(among other nations and regions that have experienced or continue to
experience colonization), shine light on the need to address harmful naming
practices that have impacted and shaped our identities. Names have also been
used to resist the settler-colonial normativity implied by maps, toponyms,
street signs, institutional names, and even individual and collective names
given to people. Furthermore, tools such as the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous People which many countries have adopted or are
considering embracing—are transforming into calls to action so that
marginalized groups choose and adopt their own names, and society more broadly
subscribes to decolonized names and naming practices.

This collection of essays will offer both case studies that demonstrate how
names are (or are not) decolonized, as well as theorizations about
decoloniality at its intersection with names and identity. The book will bring
together scholars working in Indigenous Studies, Critical Race Studies,
Women’s and Gender Studies, Postcolonialism, Onomastics, among other fields
interested in decolonizing names. The book will attempt to offer tools to
marginalized groups around the world so that they can pursue the
decolonization of their names while challenging the so-called authorities who
claim to govern naming conventions and practices.

Please submit a 250-word abstract that includes (1) a title, (2) a clear
description of the case study and/or theorization about decoloniality and
naming that you wish to contribute, and (3) the thinkers or scholarly fields
with which your contribution will engage, in addition to a 150-word
biographical note, to the editors, Dr. Lauren Beck (lbeck at mta.ca) and Dr.
Grace Gomashie
(ggomashi at uwo.ca) by April 15, 2022.

Accepted proposals will be developed into 8,000-word chapters (including
notes) and full-length chapters will be due in October 2022, with publication
estimated later in 2023.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics





 



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