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Belgeo, 2010 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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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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Eponymic Place Names in Zambia: A Critical Toponymies Perspective
Journal 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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Local History Literacy based Toponymy in Singaraja City [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesToponymy, 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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“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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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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, 2022 The classic approach to research on toponymy is limited to a linguistic focus. This reductionism has had a negative impact on the study of the toponymy of intercultural and indigenous territories, as in the case of the northern Patagonia.
Riquelme Maulén, Wladimir Esteban +1 more
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Transformation of traditional reindeer herding technologies and pasturing practices on the Kola Peninsula in the 20th— early 21st century [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2021 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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PolitologijaThis 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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Toponymy of Manila since 1898: Philologia Hispalensis
, 2023 Toponymy of Manila since 1898. My last article at Philologia Hispalensis, Universidad de Sevilla. Joven-Romero, M.A. (2023). Toponymy of Manila since 1898. Philologia Hispalensis, 37(1), 55–86.
Marco Antonio Joven-Romero
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