- Title
- Gender-biased street naming in urban sub-Saharan Africa: influential factors, features and future recommendations
- Creator
- Zuvalinyenga, Dorcas; Bigon, Liora
- Relation
- Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol. 56, Issue 3, p. 589-609
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909620934825
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- This article explores the present-day problematic of gender-biased street names as prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa’s cityscapes. That is, the abundance of masculine street names as opposed to feminine ones in the urban environments of this region. The article first provides a comparative view on the scope of this toponymic phenomenon in other geographic regions with relation to sub-Saharan Africa. It also identifies few decisive factors in the creation of the gender-biased urban landscapes in sub-Saharan Africa. These factors consist of: recent tendencies in critical toponymy studies; colonial and post-colonial cultures of governmentality; and inadequate urban planning legislation and vision as pertained by post-colonial states. This toponymic problematic is then exemplified in a site-specific analysis of the city of Bindura in north-eastern Zimbabwe. The article concludes with recommendations for designing a more socially inclusive urban management policy in the region, pointing to future research directions of this under-studied phenomenon in critical place-name studies.
- Subject
- critical toponymy studies; gender-biased street names; Sustainable Development Goals; sub-Saharan Africa; urban planning; urban management; Bindura/Zimbabwe; SDG 5; SDG 10; SDG 11; SDG 12
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1440746
- Identifier
- uon:41215
- Identifier
- ISSN:0021-9096
- Rights
- Journal of Asian and African Studies 2021, Vol. 56(3) 589–609 © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines:sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0021909620934825 journals.sagepub.com/home/jas
- Language
- eng
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