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Comparative Analysis of Sino-Western Critical Toponymy Research Trajectories and the Construction of a Chinese Localization Research Framework

Redai dili
As the spatial mnemonics of human civilization, place names transcend their basic function as geographical identifiers to embody historical narratives, cultural genes, and societal values. Within the contemporary context of globalization and urbanization,
Xiaomei Ji
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Peripheral traditionalism: Judeoislamic self‐help in Marseille's northern districts Traditionalisme périphérique : entraide judéo‐musulmane dans les quartiers nord de Marseille

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1041-1059, December 2025.
Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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Critical Toponymies. The Contested Politics of Place Naming

European Planning Studies, 2011
Critical Toponymies. The Contested Politics of Place Naming Lawrence D. Berg & Jani Vuolteenaho (Eds) Ashgate, Farnham, 2009.
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Una «vida» per due trovatori: Arnaut de Tintinhac e Peire de Valeria

Carte Romanze, 2015
Il saggio presenta una nuova edizione critica delle tre poesie attribuite dagli studiosi ad Arnaut de Tintinhac, preceduta da un’ampia introduzione. Dallo studio della tradizione manoscritta dei testi, delle attribuzioni contrastanti, della toponomastica
Riccardo Viel
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Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming

Names, 2019
The timing of Critical Toponymies, a compilation of articles that advocates linking toponymic studies to critical theory of power relations, is odd.
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820

History, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 588-605, December 2025.
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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Greek Toponymy Wine Labels

, 2022
Greek wine labels that named after the toponymy of the vineyardTHIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE.
TSIAKIS, T (via Mendeley Data)
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Genealogies of a River: Yellow River Place Names, Heritage-Making, and Spatialized Memory in Contemporary China

Genealogy
How do ordinary place names make a major river legible as heritage? This article examines Yellow River toponyms as everyday infrastructures through which hydrological space becomes spatialized memory in contemporary China.
Hongjie Dong, Hongmei Feng, Chenbai Luo
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Street-naming and the Subjectivity of Taiwan: A Case Study of Taipei City

Asian Studies, 2011
Taiwan has been ruled by a variety of political regimes and the different ruling elites have used Taiwan’s place names to shape their symbolic landscape.
Wenchuan Huang
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Obstacles to the touristification of historical borders

The Geographical Journal, Volume 191, Issue 4, December 2025.
Short Abstract This article explores the challenges of commodifying historical boundaries in tourism, focusing on the Czech lands' Bohemian‐Moravian boundary. It introduces a distinction between relict and phantom borders and analyses local perceptions through a survey of 454 residents.
Petr Marek
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