Street name changes in South Africa
After the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, streets named after apartheid leaders have been changed.
I think that the South African experience in changing street names would be instructive for Americans.
I am going to provide a list of links. If someone has some article that I should list, please email me at edwardsebesta@gmail.com
LINKS
More links are going to be added and possibly some books to read. Don't necessarily agree with everything in the links, these are papers supplied to study name change in South Africa to better be able to change names of streets and places in Dallas.
Academic Papers
These are papers you can download. There are other papers regarding name changes but they are behind expensive paywalls.
1. "Changing place names in post-apartheid South Africa: accounting for the uneveness," by Mcebisi Ndletyana, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, South Africa.
http://www.mistra.org.za/Library/ConferencePaper/Documents/Changing%20place%20na%20Changing%20Place%20Names%20in%20Post-Apartheid%20South%20Africame%20in%20post-aparthied%20SA.pdf
2. "Identity of Place, Places of Identities, Change of Place Names in Post-Apartheid South Africa," by Sylvain Guyot and Cecil Seethal.
https://hal-unilim.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00201762/document
3. "The Toponymic Inscription Problematic in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonial to Postcolonial Times," by Liora Bigon and Ambe J. Njoh.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.869.9227&rep=rep1&
News articles
1. https://joburg.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&id=2555&Itemid=253 Apartheid street names replaced at the city of Johannesburg in South Africa.
2. http://dougieoakes.co.za/opinion-pieces/street-names/ Title of of article is, "Scandal of Apartheid street names." It is about the street Verwoerd.
3. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2010/05/28/south_africas_street_signs_place_names_lead_to_more_struggle.html. Title of the article is, "South Africa's street signs, place names lead to more struggle." In reading this article you can see what the Dallas establishment is afraid of, there might be raised voices.
4. https://mg.co.za/article/2010-10-13-nearly-850-name-changes-in-sa-14-years Dallas is just changing a few school names and a park name and thinks this is a big deal.
I think that the South African experience in changing street names would be instructive for Americans.
I am going to provide a list of links. If someone has some article that I should list, please email me at edwardsebesta@gmail.com
LINKS
More links are going to be added and possibly some books to read. Don't necessarily agree with everything in the links, these are papers supplied to study name change in South Africa to better be able to change names of streets and places in Dallas.
Academic Papers
These are papers you can download. There are other papers regarding name changes but they are behind expensive paywalls.
1. "Changing place names in post-apartheid South Africa: accounting for the uneveness," by Mcebisi Ndletyana, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, South Africa.
http://www.mistra.org.za/Library/ConferencePaper/Documents/Changing%20place%20na%20Changing%20Place%20Names%20in%20Post-Apartheid%20South%20Africame%20in%20post-aparthied%20SA.pdf
2. "Identity of Place, Places of Identities, Change of Place Names in Post-Apartheid South Africa," by Sylvain Guyot and Cecil Seethal.
https://hal-unilim.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00201762/document
3. "The Toponymic Inscription Problematic in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonial to Postcolonial Times," by Liora Bigon and Ambe J. Njoh.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.869.9227&rep=rep1&
News articles
1. https://joburg.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&id=2555&Itemid=253 Apartheid street names replaced at the city of Johannesburg in South Africa.
2. http://dougieoakes.co.za/opinion-pieces/street-names/ Title of of article is, "Scandal of Apartheid street names." It is about the street Verwoerd.
3. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2010/05/28/south_africas_street_signs_place_names_lead_to_more_struggle.html. Title of the article is, "South Africa's street signs, place names lead to more struggle." In reading this article you can see what the Dallas establishment is afraid of, there might be raised voices.
4. https://mg.co.za/article/2010-10-13-nearly-850-name-changes-in-sa-14-years Dallas is just changing a few school names and a park name and thinks this is a big deal.