Part IV of “The New Frontier” asks how renaming initiatives advanced by the Trump Administration on federal lands may serve as the symbolic front for a billionaire-backed effort to reopen these territories to extraction, industrial development, and urbanization.
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Place-names locate us in place, but also in relation to other places, not just across the country, but around the world. Place-names also locate us in time. Indigenous-led renaming campaigns remind us that there are other naming traditions that refer to times before and after colonial rule. They dislodge the sense of inevitability and permanence … Read more
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