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Toponymy and Branding of Modern Residential Sites in Semarang
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 This study concerns with the phenomenon of naming residential areas using both local and foreign language and choosing lexicons relating to nature. Using critical toponymy and critical discourse analysis, 53 names were analyzed.
Nurhayati Nurhayati
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Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 Critical toponymy examines the dynamics of power, capital, and resistance through place names and the sites to which they refer. Studies here have traditionally focused on the semantic content of toponyms and the top-down institutional processes that produce them.
Mikael Brunila +5 more
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Cartographies of Colonial Commemoration: Critical Toponymy and Historical Geographies in Toronto
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 2017 Everyday, I move across a cartography that tells me a story, one that I often don’t consciously listen to, but do learn from. This story, one of colonial dominance, lives on through the markings of place, particularly the toponyms, or place names. In this article, I seek to explore the role of these toponyms in telling a story of place, one that (re ...
Smith, Bryan
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Mozambique's Colonial-Era Non-Human Primate Collection at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon: Taxonomy, Provenance, and Historical Context. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives This study reviews Mozambique's non‐human primate collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon. The collection originates from the Zoological Missions of Mozambique (1948 and 1955) carried out under Portuguese colonial administration. The objectives of this work were to: i.
Osório M, Veracini C.
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Indigenizing wild animal sovereignty. [PDF]
J Soc Philos, 2023 Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 583-601, Winter 2023.
Papadopoulos D.
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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Globally, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are fighting for the recognition of their knowledge and decision‐making authority in freshwater conservation. In the Amazon, decision‐making around freshwater management and conservation has often overlooked Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and the connections between ...
Athayde S +8 more
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Geographia Polonica, 2020 Naming and renaming of urban space often is sensitive in terms of the street location and status and implies categorization of streets according to the perceived importance of a street name.
Oleksiy Gnatiuk, Victoria Glybovets
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The Dyke, 2022 This study, examines through the post-colonial and critical toponymy lens, the presence of settler place names of colonial origin in the post-2000 resettlement areas of Gutu District of Zimbabwe.
Vincent Jenjekwa
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, 2019 Critical Toponymy: Place names in political, historical and commercial landscapes contains a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 4th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia ...
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“We shall know a place by its names”: Co-existing place names in Bindura, Zimbabwe
EchoGéo, 2020 This article examines the layered co-existence and simultaneous use of a complex range of toponyms in the town of Bindura in Zimbabwe. It proposes that the concurrent use of different names for the same place indicates the ongoing negotiation ...
Dorcas Zuvalinyenga
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