>'The right names, well used, can act as portals into the more-than-human world of bird, animal, tree, and insect. Good names open to awe and mystery, grow knowledge, and summon wonder. And wonder is an essential survival skill for the Anthropocene.' - Robert Macfarlane Place based naming, the stories and mythologies held in the land that en-liven it and are a part of the culture that created and maintain them. When these are gone either through erasure, colonialism, re-location etc. the land is recategorized away from subjecthood and into the realm of object. Once objectified the land vulnerable to exploitation and eventual destruction. ## Sources: - [[Geo-Choreographies]] - [[Ostendorf-Rodriguez, Yasmine (2023) Let's Become Fungal]] - [[Extractivism]]