Naming as Norming: ‘Race’, Gender, and the Identity Politics of Naming Places in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space - Tập 14 Số 1 - Trang 99-122 - 1996
Jani Vuolteenaho1, Robin Kearns2
1Department of Geography, Te Whare Waananga o Manawatu, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, New Zealand
2Department of Geography, Te Whare Waananga o Tamaki Makaurau, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

Tóm tắt

The process of naming places involves a contested identity politics of people and place. Place-names are part of the social construction of space and the symbolic construction of meanings about place. Accordingly, we argue that the names applied to places in Aotearoa assist in the construction of the symbolic and material orders that legitimate the dominance of a hegemonic Pakeha masculinism. Attempts to rename (and in doing so, reclaim) places are implicated in the discursive politics of people and place. The contestation of place-names in Otago/Murihiku, one of the southernmost regions of New Zealand, is examined. We present a discursive analysis of submissions made to the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1989–90 concerning a proposed reinstatement of Maori names in the area. In interpreting objections to renaming we suggest these objections articulated with and through a number of ‘commonsense’ notions about gender, ‘race’, culture, and nation which discursively (re)produced a hegemonic Pakeha masculinism in New Zealand.

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