Naming and Being

Knowledges, Identities and Cultural Politics
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-55707-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception

This experimental volume explores how intersections between different knowledge systems affect identity formation through names and naming, bringing together anthropologists, community scholars, artists, linguists, scientists, poets, specialists in science and technology, as well as legal and Indigenous studies. This interdisciplinary approach values naming practices as creative and political acts that generate and continuously shape our world(s), as well as our relations with others—both human and non-human. By embracing diverse ways of knowing and creative modes through which naming, re-naming, or un-naming unfolds via language, art and place-making, the authors and artists bring to the forefront implicit and explicit conflicts over the right to self-definition, as well as impositions and contestations of dominant narratives via naming. The goal is to inspire meaningful exchanges between essays, art, poetry, and ethnographic fiction, with each perspective and imaginative methodology treated as equally robust analytic tools. Political entities and top-down structures often use processes of naming to assert power. While recognizing these mechanisms of oppression are important, by bringing openness towards other positionalities regarding the complex problematics of naming and being in the world, this volume invites a wide range of scholars and practitioners to also engage with and consider the empowering and liberatory potential of names and naming in their own work.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glynn, Awdur Ap

Takasaeva, Kyunney

Kordasiewicz, Stanislaw

Ngo, Sylvia

Wicherkiewicz, Tomasz

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Über Autor(innen)

Awdur ap Glynn is a pseudonym for a scholar that cannot be named at present due to vulnerabilities have arisen while living under a government that does not support research into many of the topics that are at the heart of this volume. It seemed fitting that they be given this shelter by the collective group of authors, artists and press for their work on a volume that seeks to better understand the cultural politics of naming, identity and knowledge systems.  Stanislaw Kordasiewicz holds a PhD from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and coordinated the ‘Minority Languages, Major Opportunities. Collaborative Research, Community Engagement, and Innovative Educational Tools’ (COLING) project.  Sylvia Ngo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University, USA.  Tomasz Wicherkiewicz is Professor of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.  Kyunney Takasaeva is coordinator of the Polish-Siberian research group in the Faculty of ‘Artes Liberales’ at the University of Warsaw, Poland.