APPLICATION OF THE CONCEPT OF CRITICAL TOPONYMIES TO STREET NAME CHANGES IN BANDUNG, YOGYAKARTA, AND SURABAYA [PDF]
<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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School Names in Selected Districts in Southern Province of Zambia: A Critical Toponymies Perspective [PDF]
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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This article looks into the names given by public authorities to underground stations in Brussels. If naming places can reflect political and ideological choices, naming underground stations supposes first of all helping travellers find their way within ...
Frédéric Dobruszkes
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Transformation of traditional reindeer herding technologies and pasturing practices on the Kola Peninsula in the 20th— early 21st century [PDF]
The purpose of the article is to give an accent presentation of the transformation of technologies and techniques of reindeer grazing and value attitudes of the Kola reindeer herders in the 20th — early 21st century from an ethno-cultural perspective ...
Perevalova E.V.
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A marosvásárhelyi magyar-román viszony a toponímiai tájkép tükrében = The Hungarian-Romanian Relationship in Târgu Mures in the Light of the Symbolic Landscape [PDF]
In the past years, the relationship between Transylvanian Hungarians and Romanians has been stressed by symbolic conflicts that revolved around the Hungarians’ use of their minority language and symbols.
Holányi, Ákos
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Local History Literacy based Toponymy in Singaraja City [PDF]
Toponymy, as a cultural and historical marker, reflects the collective memory of a community and serves as a valuable source for understanding the socio-historical dynamics of a region.
Maryati Tuty +3 more
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Abstract Decades of politically motivated place renaming have prompted the population of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to adopt a bottom‐up vernacular toponymic register, wherein locations are indicated in relation to points of reference known as orientiry. Orientiry take cues from the built environment and are generated through the population's
Nikolaos Olma
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Eponymic Place Names in Zambia: A Critical Toponymies Perspective
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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On the old archive of the Lăpușna County Court and on its 2345 documents from the 15th–19th centuries [PDF]
On July 10, 1926, the First-President of the Lăpușna Court, judge Eugen Ionescu-Dârzeu and the regional manager of the Romanian Archives, L. T. Boga, signed the acceptance protocol for the old archive of the Lăpușna Court, which comprised around 2,345 ...
Petronel Zahariuc
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This article reflects upon objects and actions of counter-memory activism in Brazil in the wake of anticolonial demonumentalizations. Initially, it focuses on statues symbolizing colonial and traumatic pasts, notably the Borba Gato statue in São Paulo ...
Lilian Gomes
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