Pushed off the map: Toponymy and the politics of place in New York City
研究了纽约布鲁克林区围绕社区更名的冲突，发现房地产开发商和富裕居民利用地名学合法化其特权地位，而公共住房居民则经历象征性位移，揭示了地名冲突是城市资源、财产、身份和归属斗争的一部分。
This article examines conflicts over neighbourhood renaming and the politics of place. Toponymy, or the practice of place naming, is central to the constitution of place, and neighbourhood renaming is a pervasive urban strategy. But despite its prevalence, the role of neighbourhood toponymic conflict in processes of urban restructuring has not been given sustained engagement from urban scholars. This article uses archival and ethnographic data from an area in Brooklyn, New York to argue that contemporary neighbourhood renaming facilitates uneven local development. Real estate developers and residents of expensive private housing use toponymy to legitimise their privileged positions, while public housing residents experience the same toponymic change as a form of symbolic displacement. Conflicts surrounding neighbourhood renaming should therefore be seen as elements of struggles over resources, property, identity, and belonging in urban space.