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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
wiley   +1 more source

Toponymic Diplomacy: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Geopolitics of Place Names

, 2023
The last a few decades have witnessed the proliferation of critical studies focusing on the political aspects of place names. However, most of these critical studies are limited in scope: they have solely focused on the politics of place names in the ...
Doğuş Düzgün, DÜZGÜN, DOĞUŞ
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Power dynamics of post-genocide street renaming in urban Rwanda - the territorial demarcation between the past and the present

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Drawing on critical toponymy, and at the intersection of human geography, urban studies, and sociolinguistics, this qualitative study analyses the 2012 renaming of all Rwandan streets with a special focus on Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
Jean de Dieu Amini Ngabonziza, Tove Rosendal   +1 more
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Frühmittelalterliche Burgwälle des ehemaligen Kreises Militsch-Trachenberg im Lichte der archivalischenund kartographischen Quellen vom 16. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts

Przegląd Archeologiczny, 2017
The paper discusses changes in the way early medieval stronghold relics located in the North-East Silesia were perceived during the past four centuries and shows how the interest in these structures were developing from the early modern period until the ...
Justyna Kolenda, Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska   +1 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Repatriation and Ethnographic Archives: Katherine Routledge's Mangareva Field Notes in the Royal Geographic Society Collections

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 534-541, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Just over 100 years after Katherine Routledge's 1921–1922 expedition to the Mangareva Islands, digitized copies of a portion of her field notes from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London were returned to the source community in French Polynesia.
James L. Flexner, Sarah L. Evans, Albert Faahei Hugues   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mosques and belonging in Scandinavia: the role of language in territorialisation processes

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This study aims to demonstrate the importance of language in shaping the sense of belonging of mosques in Scandinavia. To do so, we draw upon Raffestin’s work on territoriality (1986, 2012) and combine it with linguistic theories of language politics ...
Helle Lykke Nielsen, Tove Rosendal
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