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Street names in Dakar-Plateau: a colonial and post-colonial perspective

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dc.abstract.enThis article revolves around the naming of streets in Dakar-Plateau. This was borne in mind as analysis considered the system of urban nomenclature applied in the colonial era, when the city was founded and shaped by France’s colonial administration; as well as the (re)naming process ongoing after Senegal’s independence. The approach thus applied quantitative verification methods to a thesis oft-repeated in the subject literature, that a French glossary of toponyms dominates the system by which streets in Dakar are named. Quantitative analysis here shows unequivocally that there is only a slight numerical prevalence of colonial-era names of streets over new names. Beyond that, clear evidence is offered for the idea that, in both colonial days and today, the symbolic urban landscape expressed with the aid of urbanonyms was shaped by authorities in a conscious manner, being pressed into the service of political objectives. To indicate the strength of this kind of linkage, the article engages in the detailed discussion of each change of name that certain streets have been through; the bases for this approach being reference to the historical town/city plans present in the Archives Nationales du Sénégal, as well as fieldwork carried out in the Senegalese capital.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorGórny, Krzysztof
dc.contributor.authorGórna, Ada
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T08:20:18Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T08:20:18Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.number5
dc.description.volume35
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02665433.2019.1633949
dc.identifier.issn0266-5433
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/120816
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02665433.2019.1633949?journalCode=rppe20
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationsocio-economic geography and spatial management
dc.relation.ispartofPlanning Perspectives
dc.relation.pages849-872
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enStreet names,
dc.subject.endecolonization,
dc.subject.enpostcolonial city,
dc.subject.enurban planning,
dc.subject.enDakar,
dc.subject.enSenegal
dc.titleStreet names in Dakar-Plateau: a colonial and post-colonial perspective
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication