The Named, Lived and Contested Environment

Boillat, Sébastien-Pierre (2022). The Named, Lived and Contested Environment In: Giraut, Frédéric; Houssay-Holzschuch, Myriam (eds.) The Politics of Place Naming: Naming the World. Sciences: Geography and demography. Political geography (pp. 47-63). London: ISTE 10.1002/9781394188307.ch3

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Political ecology aims to highlight the power issues in society–environment relations and pays particular attention to the way environmental problems are formulated and how these formulations respond to different interests. This chapter reviews the various existing approaches that mobilize toponymy in the understanding of the human–environment relationship in a broad sense. It proposes an analytical framework that identifies the key dimensions of a political ecology approach to toponymy. Until the 1980s, a common application of toponymy was its use to reconstruct the history of land use and geographic space. Landscape ethnoecology specifically goes beyond the study of the environment by experts to focus on how social groups perceive and categorize landscape element. From a material point of view, toponymy is crucial for locating and characterizing resources in often extensive activities such as mountain agriculture, pastoralism, hunting, foraging or fishing.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
Name:	Boillat, Sébastien-Pierre0000-0002-8035-6335; Giraut, Frédéric and Houssay-Holzschuch, Myriam
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
ISBN:	9781789451153
Series:	Sciences: Geography and demography. Political geography
Publisher:	ISTE
Language:	English
Submitter:	Sébastien-Pierre Boillat
Date Deposited:	22 Jan 2024 15:51
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2024 15:51
Publisher DOI:	10.1002/9781394188307.ch3
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.20885
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/20885