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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city

City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.
Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
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Şehirsel Toponimi: Denizli Şehri Cadde Adları Tipolojisi Üzerine Bir Eleştirel Deneme

Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi
Urban place names initially emerged organically from the interaction between humans and their natural and social environments. However, once the significance of toponyms in conveying and constructing social identities was recognized, the naming of places
Abdullah Uğur
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An updated checklist of serpentinophytes for research and conservation in ultramafic ecosystems on the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain)

Ecological Research, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 543-562, July 2024.
This study aimed to establish an updated checklist of serpentinophytes (vascular plants linked to ultramafic rocks) in the southern Iberian Peninsula and understand their distribution across different ultramafic lithologies. The findings revealed 28 serpentinophytes across various rock types, with certain rocks showing higher occupancy, possibly due to
Andrés V. Pérez‐Latorre, Nazaret Keen, Federico Casimiro‐Soriguer, Estefany Goncalves, Noelia Hidalgo‐Triana   +4 more
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Digitally-mediated territorial imaginations: A deep learning approach to characterize online images of contested territories and place names

Digital Geography and Society
Today, people increasingly absorb information about places from online images of locations they have never been to. In the context of contested territories, online images serve as a medium for imagining territories.
Zhaoxu Sui, Anthony C. Robinson
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An interdisciplinary approach to the collapse of the port and degradation of freshwater resources at Panama Viejo (Panama), 1519–1671

Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 320-334, May/June 2024.
Abstract The Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo (Panama) comprises a protected area of 28 km2 within present‐day Panama City, on America's Pacific coast. In 1519, the Spaniards founded the city of Panama Viejo to secure a natural port in an area inhabited by indigenous peoples since at least the eighth century CE.
Miriam Martos, Bethany Aram, Gonzalo Malvarez   +2 more
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HOW THÖŊ PINY BECAME JUBA NA BARI: Naming and Place‐Making in Urban South Sudan

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 244-262, March 2024.
Abstract Following South Sudan's independence in 2011, a myriad of local, regional and global actors have flocked to its capital city, Juba, to influence and benefit from the ongoing state‐making process. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Juba between 2012 and 2015, this article demonstrates how urban ‘space’ in Juba is rendered into ‘place’
Christian J. Doll
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Engaging geography at every street corner: using place-names as critical heuristic in social studies

, 2018
In this article I explore an often overlooked feature of everyday life that can serve as a powerful heuristic for students to engage history and geograhpy critically: everyday place-names.
Smith, Bryan, Bryan Smith
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Völkerpsychologie as a field science: José Miguel de Barandiarán and Basque ethnology

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2024.
Abstract José Miguel de Barandiarán considered the central figure of Basque anthropology, played a prominent role in the Basque people's cultural rescue (material and spiritual). His dual status as an ethnologist and priest prepared him to study collective mentalities and rural societies.
Aitor Anduaga
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Unearthing the Intellectual Roots of the Name ‘Indonesia’: Construction of National Identity Among High School Students in Indonesia

Historia Social y de la Educación
This study critically examines secondary school students’ comprehension of the historical origins of the name “Indonesia” and its role in shaping their national identity, focusing specifically on learners in Central Java.
Arif Purnomo, Ganda Febri Kurniawan
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Conflicts, names and sea space: A Review of the 22nd International Seminar on Sea Names

, 2022
This critical commentary and special section editorial reflects on the recent twenty- second installment of the International Seminar on Sea Names held from 23–26 october 2016 in Jeju Island, South Korea.
Nash, Joshua
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