Place Naming, Identities and Geography

Gerry O'Reilly is an Associate Professor in Geography, and International Coordinator for the School of History and Geography, Dublin City University (DCU). His research and teaching interests are in geopolitics, human-made catastrophes, humanitarian action, cultural geography, places of memory, sustainable development, and education. He obtained his Ph.D. from Durham University UK, MA from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork), HDipEd, and BA, Maynooth University. Post-doctoral research was undertaken in political geography and sustainable development at University College Dublin. Before joining DCU in 1997, Gerry held lectureship and research posts at UCD, and Universities of Durham, Tunis, and Algeria-Annaba, and Visiting Professorship at the Ohio State University, Columbus. He was Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellow at the Western Cape University (2009), Toronto York University (2008), and Columbia University NY (2007). He is Vice President of EUROGEO (European Association of Geographers).

Introduction: Approaching place naming narratives.- Part I: Challenging conceptual and theoretical approaches to place naming.- Assessing the validity of critical toponymy perspectives for understanding human perception of places: An analytical framework.- Legacies and place naming: Perspectives from Korea and Japan.- Place naming and neotoponymy: French experiences through the lens of a Theoretical Framework.- Geographical Names in Argentina: Present and Challenges.- Toponymy, Scale and the Change of Scale. A Geographical and Linguistic Challenge.- The mystery of hydronomy in the land of Israel.- United Nations capacity building in toponymy.- Part II: Approaches to implementing standardization of place names.- Standardization of geographical names on land and sea in Slovenia.- The New Zealand geographic board and the contested nature of place names in New Zealand.- Theorising multiple place names in Southern Africa.- Conflicts and challenges in the standardisation of geographical names in Spain.- Language policies in the field of toponymy: Perspectives on Spain.- Urban toponymy in Turkey.- Cultural crossroads in toponymy: Case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Part III: Geo-histories, legacies, and toponymy transitions.- Giving identity to space through (re)naming: Practice of village renaming in the period of the republic of Turkey.- Geo-history of the toponymy of Mohács Plain, SW Hungary.- Recreating the future: Modern residential neighbourhood and existing toponyms in Sarajevo.- Street-naming in Malta as a geo-cultural and political exercise as seen from local sources.- Toponymic study of the map of New Lusitania: A Portuguese cartographic monument from the 18th century.- Names and naming of collective farms in (the) Soviet Estonia.- Part IV: Toponymy: Narratives, languages, culture, and education.- Reading Ireland's colonial and postcolonial toponymic landscapes.- Translating topographies: Brian Friel's approach to language, landscape, and toponymy in Ireland.-The overlaid past: The politics of space and memory in Gibraltar's 'Doubling' street naming principle.- From historical to new place names. The case of Italy.- Geographical names represent a memory of places: Case study in Bandung Basin, West Java, Indonesia.- The vital question of placenames and naming of places in geographical education: Concepts, activities, and questions for reflection.- Part V: The relationship between geographical naming and cultural politics.- The nexus between geographical naming, place, and the politics of power.