Naming No Man’s Land

Paul Carter is Professor of Design (Urbanism) at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, a distinguished public artist and sound designer. The Indigenous place renaming projects discussed in Naming No Man’s Land were delivered through the Aboriginal-owned cultural consultancy, Nyungar Birdiyia, of which he is co-director.

• Introduction: practising toponymic decolonisation.- Chapter 1 Relating Country: some recent Noongar placenaming projects.- Chapter 2 Proper Names: differences between Aboriginal and colonial toponymy.- Chapter 3 Naming and Renaming Places: politics, poetics and psychology.- Chapter 4 Decolonising No Man’s land: writing back against the map.- Chapter 5 Making Place: yarning and the protocols of poetic geography.- Chapter 6 Anticipating arrival: migrancy and creative toponymy.- Conclusion: right ways of meeting, their naming and mapping.