以人物為名：吉隆坡後殖民城市街道名的紀念政治

In the Name of Figures: The Commemorative Politics of Naming and Renaming Streets in Postcolonial Kuala Lumpur

本研究選取吉隆坡作為個案，企圖以人物紀念街道名為中心，探究該城市在後殖民時期所進行的紀念政治。研究中結合了歷史文獻分析法與批判分析作為方法論，所持研究觀點將人物紀念地名視為是一種後殖民的政治論述，並帶有特殊的空間性。
建國後馬來西亞政府透過對於原先歐洲人紀念街道群聚空間、甚至是華人紀念街道群聚空間的抹除，重新置換上標榜國家地理、人物的紀念街道名，以彰顯新的、重新推崇的意識形態或族群關係，營造出以馬來人為主的空間氛圍。

Since the establishment of the country in 1957, in order to highlight a new, re-accepted ideology or racial relationship, the Malaysian government renamed? the former cluster spaces of European and Chinese people alike in the country, with the new names featuring the national geography and historical figures. Those places were renamed after the Malaysian royal family members, politicians, pre-national heroic figures, and even soldiers who were killed during the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960), successfully creating Malay ambience in the national spaces.
This study, using the national capital and the supreme center of political power in Malaysia—Kuala Lumpur—as an example, looks into the city’s memorial politics practiced in the postcolonial period by focusing on the Malaysian government’s street renaming policy. Historical literature analysis and critical analysis are used as the methods for this research, which is based on the concept that place-naming after historical national figures serves as a kind of postcolonial discourse and entails a particular spatiality.