Navigating Community and Place Through Colloquial Street Names in Fingo Village, Makhanda (Grahamstown)

Toponyms can be conceptualised as both symbolic capital and symbolic resistance – as means to express hegemonic power or to resist it. They have been cast as a means of transformation and restitution in the post-apartheid landscape of South Africa. The naming and renaming process has, therefore, bee...

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Published in:	Urban forum (Johannesburg) Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 333 - 348
Main Authors:	Irvine, Philippa Margaret, Memela, Sinenhlanhla, Dlongolo, Zandile Nombulelo, Kepe, Thembela
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2021 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Apartheid Colonialism Community Cultural capital Hegemony Human Geography Identity Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Names Naming Nation building Navigation Political development Political Science Population Economics Post-apartheid era Public signs Resistance Restitution Social Sciences Sociology Symbolism Symbols Toponymy Traffic signs Transformation Villages Symbolic resistance Symbolic capital Fingo Village Toponymy Grahamstown Makhanda
ISSN:	1015-3802, 1874-6330
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