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Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming

open access: yesNames, 2019
The timing of Critical Toponymies, a compilation of articles that advocates linking toponymic studies to critical theory of power relations, is odd.
Daniel Duncan
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Gender and Name: Towards Thinking of the Possible in the Work of Judith Butler and Sylvain Lazarus [PDF]

open access: yesGenero, 2021
Judith Butler analyzes the concepts of name and naming in clear opposition to psychoanalytic theory, as well as structuralist anthropology, in which, starting from the experience of the lesbian position in Willa Cather’s prose, she recognizes and exposes
Slobodan Golubović
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Examining the position of Christian liberation theology in the Prophetic Pragmatism of Cornel West [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامه کلام تطبیقی شیعه, 2022
Cornel West considers the prophets to have two characteristics of love and courage against the devil of their time, and by naming his approach as Prophetic Pragmatism, he intends to cultivate these characteristics.
Mohammad Ali Ashouri Kisomi
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La toponymie comme traduction ?

open access: yesTerra Brasilis, 2021
By focusing on Central Asian place-names that were incorrectly collected by European surveyors and cartographers during the 19th century, this article aims at offering a critical overview of place-naming processes via the idea of translation. This notion
Felix de Montety
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Eponymic Place Names in Zambia: A Critical Toponymies Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Law and Social Sciences, 2020
This study examines eponymic place names in Zambia, specifically focusing on names of international airports and national stadia. Names of these features have been selected for study because in 2011, they had been subjected to changes. The study brings out the doubled nature of this name change by the Patriotic Front regime: to commemorate Zambia’s ...
Cheela Chilala, Khama Hang’ombe
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Towards Creating a Global Urban Toponymy—A Comment

open access: yesUrban Science, 2020
This commentary points to the problems inherent in critical place names studies in terms of classic research topics, methodologies and geographies. It expounds the limits of the official “index”, that is, the variety of traditional urban inscriptions on ...
Liora Bigon
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The Mysteries of Meaning Production in the Story of Sindbad Bahri Based on Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesLiterary Arts, 2022
Based on Fairclough's approach, narrative texts can play an important role in recreating cultural, political, social, and meaning-producing structures. One Thousand and One Nights stories have a context based on the production of meaning in the structure
Zeinab Karami Poor   +2 more
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Untitled and Undated Poetry (Title of Manouchehr Atashi's Poems) [PDF]

open access: yesLiterary Arts, 2021
The critics and those who study contemporary poems recognize the world of poetry and its poetics through its title. The title functions as an entry for the poem.
Hafez Hatami   +2 more
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The Library Language Game: Information Literacy through the Lens of Wittgenstein's Language Games

open access: yesCommunications in Information Literacy, 2021
Labeling information is a precarious and risky enterprise. Catalogers have the task of fitting unique concepts within established and rigid language frameworks while also minimizing personal bias.
Kathleen A Langan
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