Naming and Being: Knowledges, Identities and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2026)

The anthology Naming and Being: Knowledges, Identities and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2026) includes an essay and image plates from the series The Sum of My Data.

Edited by Awdur ap Glynn, Stanisław Kordasiewicz, Sylvia Ngo, Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, and Kyunney Takasaeva, this experimental volume explores how intersections between different knowledge systems affect identity formation through names and naming. Bringing together anthropologists, community scholars, artists, linguists, scientists, poets, and specialists in science and technology, as well as legal and Indigenous studies, it treats naming practices as creative and political acts that shape our world(s) and our relations with others, human and non-human.

By embracing diverse ways of knowing and creative modes through which naming, renaming, or un-naming unfolds via language, art, and place-making, the book highlights conflicts over the right to self-definition and the imposition and contestation of dominant narratives through naming. It aims to foster meaningful exchanges between essays, art, poetry, and ethnographic fiction, with each approach treated as an equally robust analytic tool.

Further details are available via the Routledge website.

Cover of Naming and Being: Knowledges, Identities and Cultural Politics (All images and text © 2026 Routledge)

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