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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue4,P.493-518

语言

英文

关键字

Critical toponymy; assemblage; Japanese Canadians; downtown eastside; dispossession; PLACE-NAMES; GEOGRAPHIES; INSCRIPTION; LANDSCAPE; POLITICS; CITIES; MEMORY; POWER

作者单位

[Wideman, Trevor James] Queens Univ, Dept Geog & Planning, Kingston, ON, Canada. [Masuda, Jeffrey R.] Queens Univ, Sch Kinesiol & Hlth Studies, Kingston, ON, Canada. [Wideman, Trevor James] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Geog, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. Wideman, TJ (reprint author), Queens Univ, Dept Geog & Planning, Kingston, ON, Canada.; Wideman, TJ (reprint author), Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Geog, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. E-Mail: twideman@sfu.ca

摘要

Geographic scholarship in critical toponymy has highlighted the importance of place naming as a form of discursive power within processes of urbanization. This paper builds on such literature and advances a novel theory of toponymic assemblage to interpret findings from a participatory research project in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada. We foreground neighborhood history in the form of a Japanese Canadian enclave and its wartime uprooting and dispossession, and trace the historical antecedents of a resurrected toponymy of Japantown that has appropriated and renarrated Japanese Canadian history to facilitate further rounds of dispossession. Using a genealogical method, we highlight three moments of Japanese Canadian uprooting, return, presence, and activism, demonstrating how toponymies are assembled in place in heterogeneous and historically contiguous ways. This approach expands on current research in critical toponymy, offering a novel methodology for exploring the enrolment of toponymy, discourse, and materiality in the formation of place.