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Toponymy and Branding of Modern Residential Sites in Semarang

open access: yesE3S 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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Toward a Critical Toponymy Framework for Named Entity Recognition: A Case Study of Airbnb in New York City [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings 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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Indigenizing wild animal sovereignty. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Soc Philos, 2023
Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 583-601, Winter 2023.
Papadopoulos D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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]

open access: yesAm J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT 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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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon. [PDF]

open access: yesConserv Biol
Abstract 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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Pisidian toponymy: Method and results

open access: yes, 2022
International audienceThis paper focuses on Pisidian toponymy and ethnonymy and the persistence of Anatolian languages in the toponymy of the region. Toponymy and ethnonymy tell us much about territorial control of individual settlements, whether they be
Locatelli, Lauriane
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Do street status and centrality matter for post-socialist memory policy? The experience of Ukrainian cities

open access: yesGeographia 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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READING THE SIBERIAN CITY-TEXT: SPATIAL SEMANTICS AND SEMIOTIC POLITICS OF URBAN TOPONYMIC LANDSCAPES IN YAKUTSK (RUSSIA)

open access: yesZbornik 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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School Names in Selected Districts in Southern Province of Zambia: A Critical Toponymies Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2020
Studies have exposed place names as embodiments of the history, identity, culture, and language of their bestowers. Whilst this is true, some place naming practices reflect hegemonic tendencies that have not received adequate scholarly attention, especially in Zambia. This study examines school names in four districts in the Southern Province of Zambia
Khama Hang’ombe   +2 more
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APPLICATION OF THE CONCEPT OF CRITICAL TOPONYMIES TO STREET NAME CHANGES IN BANDUNG, YOGYAKARTA, AND SURABAYA [PDF]

open access: yesParadigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya, 2021
<p>From 2017 to 2019, a number of street names were changed in Yogyakarta, Bandung and Surabaya City by each Provincial Government for the purpose of celebrating the reconciliation between the Sundanese (West Java) and the Javanese (Central Java, East Java, and Yogyakarta) after years of dispute due to the infamous Bubat Tragedy which occurred in
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