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Sequencing toponymic change: A quantitative longitudinal analysis of street renaming in Sibiu, Romania. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective identity that are embroiled with power relations.
Mihai Stelian Rusu
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 Indigenous maps are critical in understanding the historic and current land tenure of Indigenous groups. Furthermore, Indigenous claims to land can be seen in their connections via toponymy. European concepts of territory and political boundaries did not
Daniel G. Cole, E. Richard Hart
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Critical Toponymy: Creating Prestigious Spaces Through Using Urban Names
Megaron, 2019 Place names are important for memory and identity and were researched by many kind of social sciences as history, anthropology, human geography, linguistic.
Reycan Çetin, Aylin Şentürk
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Towards Creating a Global Urban Toponymy—A Comment
Urban 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 social and political life of names and naming
Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik, 2021 This concluding commentary critically and constructively engages with the articles in this first multidisciplinary issue of the Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics.
Reuben Rose-Redwood
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Assembling “Japantown”? A critical toponymy of urban dispossession in Vancouver, Canada [PDF]
Urban Geography, 2017 Geographic scholarship in critical toponymy has highlighted the importance of place naming as a form of discursive power within processes of urbanization. This paper builds on such literature and advances a novel theory of toponymic assemblage to interpret findings from a participatory research project in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada.
Trevor James Wideman, Jeffrey R. Masuda
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What can we see from the road? Applications of a cumulative viewshed analysis on a US state highway network [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2022 In many parts of the world, motorized travel is one of the most common ways that people interact with their regional landscape. This study investigates how travelers' understandings of place might be influenced by what landforms they can see from a ...
S. D. Quinn
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(Mis)Leading Approaches in Toponomastics. Review of the book: Perono Cacciafoco, F., & Cavallaro, F. (2023). Place Names. Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xxiii + 298 p. [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The paper provides a critical review of a ten-chapter volume dealing with various aspects of the study of place names. Conceived as a concise but comprehensive reference source for students in toponomastics, the book has two distinct focuses, namely ...
Dmitry V. Spiridonov
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Geography notes on critical toponymy
, 2023 L’introduzione metodologica alla sessione di toponomastica critica del Con-gresso geografico mondiale IGU-UGI di Parigi 2022 ha proposto dei veri e propri appunti di geografia finalizzati a delimitare il campo di indagine, indi-viduare gli strumenti concettuali offerti dalla disciplina e condividere un vo-cabolario e una bibliografia.
Pecorelli, Valeria +2 more
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Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2023 The article studies the spatial semantics of Yakutsk’s urban text (Sakha/Yakutia, Russia) as a component of the cultural landscape. The research is based on the theoretical approaches of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, scholarly traditions of post-
Olga Lavrenova +2 more
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