431
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

A toponymic investigation of South African gated communities

Pages 326-348 | Received 26 Oct 2016, Accepted 05 Jul 2018, Published online: 16 Aug 2018

References

  • Alderman, D. (2008). Place, naming and the interpretation of cultural landscapes. In B. Graham & P. Howard (Eds.), The Ashgate research companion to heritage and identity (pp. 195–214). Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Andrews, T., & Ploeger, J. (1989). Straat- en plekname van ou-Pretoria. Pretoria: Van Schaik.
  • Atkinson, R. (2008, May). The politics of gating (A response to private security and public space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers). European Journal of Spatial Development. Retrievd August 12, 2016, from, http://www.nordregio.se/Global/EJSD/Debate/debate080506.pdf
  • Azaryahu, M. (1996). The power of commemorative street names. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 14, 311–330.
  • Ballard, R., & Jones, G. (2011). Natural neighbors: Indigenous landscapes and eco-estates in Durban, South Africa. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 101, 131–148.
  • Bigon, L. (2016). Introduction: Place names in Africa: Colonial urban legacies, entangled histories. In L. Bigon (Ed.), Place names in Africa: Colonial urban legacies, entangled histories (pp. 1–25). Cham: Springer.
  • Botha, C. (1927). Place names in the Cape Province. Cape Town: Juta.
  • Bourdieu, P. (1991). Language and symbolic power. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • City of Cape Town. (2007). Gated development policy. Cape Town: Author. Retrieved August 12, 2016, from http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/planningandbuilding/Publications/LandUseManagement/Documents/Gated%20Development%20Policy.pdf
  • Coombe, E., & Slingsby, P. (2000). Beard shaver’s bush: Place names in the Cape. Muizenberg: Baardskeerder.
  • De Certeau, M. (1984). The practice of everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Dirsuweit, T. (2002). Johannesburg: Fearful city? Urban Forum, 13, 3–19.
  • Donaldson, R. (2001). A model for South African urban development in the 21st century? Paper delivered at the 20th South African Transport Conference, Pretoria, South Africa. Retrieved August 12, 2016, from http://www.sustainabledevelopmentnetwork.com/pdf1/52783458-A-Model-for-South-African-Urban-Development-in-the-21st-Century.pdf
  • Du Plessis, E. (1973). ‘n Ondersoek na die oorsprong en betekenis van Suid-Afrikaanse berg- en riviername. Kaapstad: Tafelberg.
  • Du Plessis, T. (2009). Language visibility and the transformation of geographical names in South Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 40, 215–238.
  • Duckson, D. (1981). Creeks, runs and hollows. The Professional Geographer, 33, 361–365.
  • Duminy, J. (2014). Street renaming, symbolic capital, and resistance in Durban, South Africa. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32, 310–328.
  • Durington, M. (2006). Race, space and place in suburban Durban: An ethnographic assessment of gated community environments and residents. GeoJournal, 66, 147–160.
  • Foucault, M., & Gordon, C. (1980). Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Giraut, F., & Houssay-Holzschuch, M. (2016). Place naming as Dispositif: Toward a theoretical framework. Geopolitics, 21, 1–21.
  • Guyot, S., Dellier, J., & Caillot, A. (2015). Our rural sense of place: Rurality and strategies of self-segregation in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. Spatial Justice, 7. Retrieved May 24, 2016, from http://www.jssj.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/guyot-JSSJ7-ENG.pdf
  • Guyot, S., & Seethal, C. (2007). Identity of place, places of identities: Change of place names in post-apartheid South Africa. South African Geographical Journal, 89, 55–63.
  • Hart, P. (1998). Rondebosch and Rosebank street names. Claremont: Wescape.
  • Hook, D., & Vrdoljak, M. (2002). Gated communities, heterotopia and a “rights” of privilege: A `heterotopology’ of the South African security-park. Geoforum, 33, 195–219.
  • Howard, A. (2003). Cities in Africa, past and present: Contestation, transformation, discourse. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 37, 197–235.
  • Hudson, B., & Higman, B. (2009). Jamaican place names. Kingston: The University of West Indies Press.
  • Jenkins, E. (2007). Falling into place: The story of modern South African place names. Cape Town: David Philip.
  • Jenkins, E. (2014). Public hearings on South African geographical names, 2008-2014. Nomina Africana, 28, 1–14.
  • Jenkins, E. (2017a). Some aspects of South African geographical names registered between 2000 and 2014. South African Geographical Journal, 99, 1–13.
  • Jenkins, E. (2017b). The naming of uninhabited islands: Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island and Marion Island. South African Geographical Journal, 99, 184–195.
  • Jiménez-Esquinas, G., & Sánchez-Carretero, C. (2018). Who owns the name of a place? On place branding and logics in two villages in Galicia, Spain. Tourist Studies. 18, 3–20.
  • Joubert, G. (n.d.). De oorsprong van tweehonderd Zuid-Afrikaansche plaatsnamen. Pretoria: Wallachs.
  • Jürgens, U., & Gnad, M. (2002). Gated communities in South Africa – Experiences from Johannesburg. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 29, 337–353.
  • Kasanga, L. (2015). Odonymic changes in Central Pretoria: Representation, identity and textual construction of place. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 234, 27–45.
  • Koopman, A. (2002). Zulu names. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
  • Koopman, A. (2012). Street-name changes in Pietermaritzburg and Durban within their historical and global contexts. Nomina Africana, 26, 95–112.
  • Landman, K. (2003). Crime, political transition and spatial transformation in Brazil and South Africa (South African Institute for International Affairs Report 36). Johannesburg: SAIIA Publication.
  • Landman, K. (2006). Privatising public space in post-apartheid South African cities through neighbourhood enclosures. GeoJournal, 66, 133–146.
  • Landman, K. (2007). Exploring the impact of gated communities on social and spatial justice and its relation to restorative justice and peacebuilding in South Africa. Acta Juridica, 7, 134–155.
  • Lang, R., & Danielsen, K. (1997). Gated communities in America: Walling out the world? Housing Policy Debate, 8, 867–899.
  • Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd.
  • Lemanski, C. (2006). Spaces of exclusivity or connection? Linkages between a gated community and its poorer neighbour in a Cape Town master plan development. Urban Studies, 43, 397–420.
  • Lemanski, C., & Oldfield, S. (2009). The parallel claims of gated communities and land invasions in a Southern city: Polarised state responses. Environment and Planning A, 41, 634–648.
  • Lévy, J. (2014). Inhabiting. In R. Lee, N. Castree, R. Kitchin, V. Lawson, A. Paasi, C. Philo, … C. Withers (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of human geography (pp. 45–68). Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.
  • Light, D., & Young, C. (2015). Toponymy as commodity: Exploring the economic dimensions of urban place names. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39, 435–450.
  • Loy, W. (1989). Geographic names in geography. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 51, 7–24.
  • Lubbe, H. (2011). Name changing in South Africa: A historical overview, with emphasis on the period after 1994. Nomina Africana, 25, 43–66.
  • Machaba, M. (2003). Naming, heritage and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. Nomina Africana, 17, 55–77.
  • Maharaj, B., & Narsiah, S. (2002). From apartheid apologism to post-apartheid neo-liberalism: Paradigm shifts in South African urban geography. South African Geographical Journal, 84, 88–97.
  • Maruani, T., & Amit-Cohen, I. (2013). Marketing landscapes: The use of landscape values in advertisements of development projects. Landscape and Urban Planning, 114, 92–101.
  • McIntyre, J. (1959). Origin of Durban street names. Durban: Robertson Printers.
  • Meiring, B. (2009). Geographical names and social cohesion. Nomina Africana, 23, 31–50.
  • Möller, L. (1995). Criteria for proposed name changes. Nomina Africana, 9, 86–106.
  • Myburgh, A. (1948). Native names of industrial addresses. Pretoria: Government Printer.
  • Myers, G. (1996). Naming and placing the other: Power and the urban landscape in Zanzibar. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 87, 237–246.
  • Ndletyana, M. (2012). Changing place names in post-apartheid South Africa: Accounting for the unevenness. Social Dynamics, 38, 87–103.
  • Neethling, S. (2000). The developer’s dilemma: Finding the right name. Nomina Africana, 14, 57–72.
  • Nienaber, G., & Raper, P. (1977). Toponymica Hottentotica. Pretoria: Raad van Geestelike Navorsing.
  • Nienaber, G., & Raper, P. (1983). Hottentot (Khoekhoen) place-names. Durban: Butterworths.
  • Nienaber, P. (1972). Suid-Afrikaanse pleknaam-woordeboek. Kaapstad: Tafelberg.
  • Okonkwo, U. (2007). Luxury, Fashion, Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Okonkwo, U. (2007). Luxury, fashion, branding: trends, tactics, techniques. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230590885
  • Pettman, C. (1922). Place names of the Orange Free State. Queenstown: Daily Representative.
  • Pettman, C. (1923). South African methodist place names. Queenstown: Daily Representative.
  • Pettman, C. (1931). South African place names past and present. Queenstown: Daily Representative.
  • Phillips, E. (1933). Some South African place names derived from plants. South African Journal of Science, 30, 656–671.
  • Pirie, G. (1984). Letters, words, worlds: The naming of Soweto. African Studies, 43, 43–51.
  • Pirie, G. (1985). Research notes and commentary. South African Geographical Journal, 67, 118–119.
  • Raper, P. (1988). The Portuguese contribution to South African toponymy. Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, 18, 24–28.
  • Raper, P. (1989). Dictionary of South African place names. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers.
  • Raper, P. (1995). South African onomastics. In E. Eichler, G. Hilty, H. Löffler, H. Steger, & L. Zgusta (Eds.), Name studies: An international handbook of onomastics (pp. 256–264). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
  • Raper, P. (2004). New dictionary of South African place names. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers.
  • Raper, P., Möller, L., & Du Plessis, T. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African place names. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers.
  • Republic of South Africa. (1986). Government gazette ( (17 September, No. 10440)). Pretoria: Author.
  • Republic of South Africa. (1991). Government gazette ( (22 May, No. 13249)). Pretoria: Author.
  • Rose-Redwood, R. (2008). From number to name: Symbolic capital, places of memory and the politics of street renaming in New York City. Social and Cultural Geography, 9, 431–452.
  • Rose-Redwood, R., & Alderman, D. (2011). Critical interventions in political toponymy. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 10, 1–6.
  • Rose-Redwood, R., Alderman, D., & Azaryahu, M. (2010). Geographies of toponymic inscription: New directions in critical place-name studies. Progress in Human Geography, 34, 453–470.
  • Saldanha Bay Municipality. (2011). Municipal spatial development framework. Saldanha Bay: Author.
  • Skead, C. (1993). The Algoa gazetteer: Rural placenames in the nine East Cape districts of Albany, Alexandria, Bathurst, Humansdorp, Port Elizabeth, Steytlerville, Uitenhage, Uniondale (in part), and Willowmore. Port Elizabeth: Algoa Regional Services Council.
  • Skead, C. (2001). Pilot gazetteer of Xhosa placenames: A preliminary survey (1970s to 1990s). Humewood: Port Elizabeth Museum.
  • Smith, A. (1971). Johannesburg street names. Cape Town: Juta.
  • Spocter, M. (2012). Gated developments: International experiences and the South African context. Acta Academica, 44, 1–27.
  • Spocter, M. (2013). Non-metropolitan gated developments in the Western Cape: Patterns, processes and purpose (Doctoral dissertation). University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch.
  • Spocter, M. (2016). Non-metropolitan gated retirement communities in the Western Cape. Urban Forum, 27, 211–228.
  • Swart, M. (2008). Name changes as symbolic reparation after transition: The examples of Germany and South Africa. German Law Journal, 9, 105–121.
  • Turner, N. (2009). Odonymic warfare: The process of renaming streets in Durban, South Africa. Nomina Africana, 23, 113–132.
  • Van Warmelo, N. (1961). Place names of the Kruger National Park. Pretoria: Government Printer.
  • Vuolteenaho, J., & Berg, L. (2009). Towards critical toponymies. In L. Berg & J. Vuolteenaho (Eds.), Critical toponymies (pp. 1–18). Farnham: Ashgate.
  • Vuolteenaho, J., Ameel, L., Newby, A., & Scott, M. (2012). Language, space, power: Reflections on linguistic and spatial turns in urban research. In J. Vuolteenaho, L. Ameel, A. Newby, & M. Scott (Eds.), Language, space and power: Urban entanglements (pp. 1–27). Helsinki: Helsinki College for Advanced Studies. Retrieved July 26, 2016, from http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/journal/volumes/volume_13/COLLeGIUM_vol13.pdf
  • West, A. (2011, March 24). Duplicated names. GhostDigest. Retrieved July 3, 2017, from http://www.ghostdigest.com/articles/duplicated-names/53646
  • Yeoh, B. (1996). Street-naming and nation-building: Toponymic inscriptions of nationhood in Singapore. Area, 28, 298–307.
  • Zelinsky, W. (1955). Some problems in the distribution of generic terms in the place-names of the Northeastern United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 45, 319–349.
  • Zelinsky, W. (1967). Classical town names in the United States: The historical geography of an American idea. Geographical Review, 57, 463–495.
  • Zelinsky, W. (1997). Along the frontiers of name Geography. The Professional Geographer, 49, 465–466.
  • Zungu, P. (1998). Toponymic lapses in Zulu. Natalia, 28, 23–33.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.