Engaging in Toponymic Justice: Proactively Naming The Nishihara Family Classroom

Abstract

In Brief: Toponyms, or place names, which situate a location in its historical, social, and demographic context, are reconsidered during efforts to establish toponymic justice, a re-naming lens arising out of critical place-name studies. We outline how toponymic justice can be enacted in library spaces by chronicling the naming of a library classroom at The Oregon State University Valley Library.

Keywords

• honorific naming
• library spaces
• namesakes
• social justice
• toponymic justice