Alderman uses examples from the U.S. to illustrate these concepts. For this SJ Learning Journal, in your own words, summarise these two approaches to placenaming.
Description As Alderman (2009) describes, ‘[n]aming is a powerful vehicle for promoting identification with the past and locating oneself within wider networks of memory’ (p. 195). He discusses two ways place and history come together when naming works as either: symbolic capital’ (pp. 199-204); or as symbolic resistance’ (pp. 204-208). Alderman uses examples from the […]