Creating a new geography of memory in the south: (Re)naming of streets in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-69

  Alderman, Derek H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000445357     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sgo.1996.0014     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Agnew, J. A. 1987. Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society (Boston: Allen and Unwin).
2. Athens-Clarke County Planning Department Records, Date of visit: November, 1994. Contact Person: Brad Griffin.
3. The Atlanta Journal/Constitution. "The Symbol War." 7 March,1993, pp. A1 and A10.
4. The Atlanta Journal/Constitution. "Back Streets Get King Name." 15 October, 1993, p. Fl, Local News.
5. The Atlanta Journal/Constitution. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." 14 January, 1995, p. E1.
6. Bowden, M. J. 1992. "The Invention of American Tradition," Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 18, pp. 3-26.
7. Burke, P. 1989. "History as Social Memory." in T. Butler, ed., Memory: History, Culture, and the Mind (New York: Basil Blackwell).
8. Charlesworth, A. 1994. "Contesting Places of Memory: The Case of Auschwitz," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 12, pp. 579-593.
9. Clark, H. 1993. "Sites of Resistance: Place, 'Race', and Gender as Sources of Empowerment." in P. Jackson and J. Penrose, eds., Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
10. Cohen, S. B., and Kliot, N. 1992. "Place-Names in Israel's Ideological Struggle over the Administered Territories," Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 82, pp. 653-680.
11. Cosgrove, D. E., and Jackson, P. 1987. "New Directions in Cultural Geography," Area, Vol. 19, pp. 95-101.
12. Cuff, Dana. 1989. "Mirrors of Power: Reflective Professionals in the Neighborhood," in J. Wolch and M. Dear, eds., The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life (Winchester: Unwin Hyman).
13. Dwyer, C. 1993. "Constructions of Muslim Identity and the contesting of power: The debate over Muslim schools in the United Kingdom," in P. Jackson and J. Penrose, eds., Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
14. Eatonton City Hall Records. "Minutes of City Council Meetings, 1989-1990."
15. The Eatonton Messenger. "Group Asks to Have Street Renamed For King." 18 October, 1990, p. A1.
16. Feeley-Harnik, G. 1991. "Finding Memories in Madagascar," in S. Kuchler and W. Melion, eds., Images of Memory: On Remembering and Representation (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press).
17. Fournier, E. J. 1995. "Memory, Meaning, and the Selective Commodification of the Past in Savannah, Georgia," in Abstracts, The Association of American Geographers 91st Annual Meeting (Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers).
18. Gramsci, A. 1985. Selections from the Cultural Writings (London: Lawrence and Wishart).
19. Greene, Melissa Fay. 1992. Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-Fiction (New York: Fawcett Columbine).
20. Gulley, H. E. 1990. "Southern Nationalism on the Landscape: County Names in Former Confederate States," Names, Vol. 38, pp. 231-242.
21. Gulley, H. E. 1993. "Women and the Lost Cause: Preserving a Confederate Identity in the American Deep South," Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 19, pp. 125-141.
22. Halbwachs, M. 1980. The Collective Memory, translated and introduced by Mary Douglas (New York: Harper and Row).
23. Halbwachs, M. 1992. Maurice Halbwachs: On Collective Memory, edited, translated, and with an introduction by Lewis A. Coser (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press).
24. Hannah, M. 1993. "Space and Social Control in the Administration of the Oglala Lakota ('Sioux'), 1871-1979," Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 19, pp. 412-432.
25. Harvey, D. 1985. "The Geopolitics of Capitalism," in D. Gregory and J. Urry, eds., Social Relations and Spatial Structures (New York: St. Martin's Press).
26. Heffernan, M. 1995. "Lest We Forget: The Western Front and the Politics of Remembering," in Abstracts, The Association of American Geographers 91st Annual Meeting (Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers).
27. Herod, A. 1991a. "Local Political Practice in Response to a Manufacturing Plant Closure: How Geography Complicates Class Analysis," Antipode, Vol. 23, pp. 385-402.
28. Herod, A. 1991b. "The Production of Scale in United States Labor Relations," Area, Vol. 23, pp. 82-88.
29. Hershkovitz, L. 1993. "Tiananmen Square and the Politics of Place," Political Geography, Vol. 12, pp. 395-420.
30. Jackson, P. 1989a. "Geography, race, and racism," in R. Peet and N. Thrift, eds., New Models in Geography, Vol. 2 (London: Unwin Hyman).
31. Jackson, P. 1989b. Maps of Meaning (London: Unwin Hyman Ltd.).
32. Jackson, P. 1993. "Policing Difference: 'race' and Crime in Metropolitan Toronto," in P. Jackson and J. Penrose, eds., Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
33. Kearns, G. 1995. "Politics, History, Space: Celebrating Columbus in Modern Chicago," in Abstracts, The Association of American Geographers 91st Annual Meeting (Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers).
34. Kong, L. 1993. "Negotiating Conceptions of 'Sacred Space': A Case Study of Religious Buildings in Singapore," Transactions, Institute of British Geographers (New Series), Vol. 18, pp. 342-358.
35. Lefebrve, H. 1991. The Production of Space, originally published in French in 1974 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell).
36. Leib, J. 1995. "Heritage Versus Hate: A Geographical Analysis of Georgia's Confederate Battle Flag Debate," Southeastern Geographer, Vol. 35, pp. 37-57.
37. Lowenthal, D. 1985. The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).
38. Mitchell, D. 1992. "Iconography and Locational Conflict from the Underside: Free Speech, People's Park, and the Politics of Homelessness in Berkeley, California," Political Geography, Vol. 11, pp. 152-169.
39. Pinkney, A. 1993. Black Americans (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall).
40. Radford, J. P. 1992. "Identity and Tradition in the Post-Civil War South," Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 18, pp. 91-103.
41. Routledge, P. 1992. "Putting Politics in Place: Baliapal, India, as a Terrain of Resistance," Political Geography, Vol. 11, pp. 588-611.
42. Schudson, M. 1989. "The Present in the Past Versus the Past in the Present," Communication, Vol. 11, pp. 105-113.
43. Schwartz, B., Zerubavel, Y., and Barnett, B. 1986. "The Recovery of Masada: A Study in Collective Memory," Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 27, pp. 147-164.
44. Schwartz, B. 1990. "The Reconstruction of Abraham Lincoln," in D. Middleton and D. Edwards, eds., Collective Remembering (Newbury Park: Sage).
45. Schwartz, B. 1991. "Iconography and Collective Memory: Lincoln's Image in the American Mind," Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 32, pp. 301-319.
46. Smith, N. 1984. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space (Oxford: Basil Blackwell).
47. Smith, N., and Denis, W. 1987. "The Restructuring of Geographical Scale: Coalescence and Fragmentation of the Northern Core Region," Economic Geography, Vol. 63, pp. 160-182.
48. Smith, S. 1989. "Critical Interpretations of Racial Segregation," in The Politics of Race and Residence (Cambridge: Polity Press).
49. Smith, S. 1993. "Bounding the Borders: Claiming Space and Making Place in Rural Scotland," Transactions, Institute of British Geographers (New Series), Vol. 18, pp. 291-308.
50. Soja, E. W. 1985. "The Spatiality of Social Life: Towards a Transformative Retheorization," in D. Gregory and J. Urry, eds., Social Relations and Spatial Structures (New York: St. Martin's Press).
51. Soja, E. W. 1989. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (New York: Verso).
52. Stump, R. W. 1988. "Toponymic Commemoration of National Figures: The Cases of Kennedy and King," Names, Vol. 36, pp. 203-216.
53. Till, K. E. 1995. "Berlin's 'Topographies des Terrors': Fashioning a Place of Memory in the Ruins of the Gestapo Headquarters," in Abstracts, The Association of American Geographers 91st Annual Meeting (Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers).
54. United States Postal Service. 1994. National Zip Code and Post Office Directory (Washington, DC: United States Postal Service).
55. USA Today. "Who Controls King Legacy." 13-15 January, 1995, pp. 1A-2A.
56. Webster, G. R., and Webster, R. H. 1994. "The Power of an Icon," The Geographical Review, Vol. 84, pp. 131-143.
57. Winberry, J. J. 1983. "'Lest We Forget': The Confederate Monument and the Southern Landscape," Southeastern Geographer, Vol. 23, pp. 107-121.
58. Yeoh, B. S. 1992. "Street Names in Colonial Singapore," The Geographical Review, Vol. 82, pp. 313-322.
59. Zelinsky, W. 1983. "Nationalism in the American Place-Name Cover," Names, Vol. 31, pp. 1-28.
60. Zelinsky, W. 1988. Nation into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).