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Across Madagascar, treeless grasslands characterised by erosion gullies are named after forest and trees

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 1490-1504, November 2024.
Debates about the impacts of human settlement on Madagascar's habitat have missed the Malagasy perspective. Using indigenous and local knowledge in the form of toponyms, we find many regions across today's treeless grasslands are named after forest/trees, suggesting they may be novel.
Grant S. Joseph, Fetraharimalala Randriatsara, Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Ando A. Rafidiarimanda, Colleen L. Seymour   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sense of Place in Latin America: Mobilities, Territorialities, and Fear

Geography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2024.
ABSTRACT Sense of place has become relevant in Latin America in recent decades. Although many scholars have looked at people‐place relationships there, language barriers have limited the international exposure of these studies. By assembling a collection of works mainly published in Spanish and Portuguese, we trace the fields of research where the ...
Adrián Ortega‐Iturriaga, Gerardo Bocco, Pedro S. Urquijo, Javier O. Serrano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The United States of America in Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? and Sergey Yesenin’s Biography: the Way over the Ocean and the Folklore Motif of Wanderings [PDF]

Литература двух Америк
The article discusses possible sources of Yesenin’s acquaintance with Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s novel What Is to Be Done? and its critical evaluation.
Elena A. Samodelova
doaj   +1 more source

Cartographies of Colonial Commemoration: Critical Toponymy and Historical Geographies in Toronto

Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 2017
Everyday, I move across a cartography that tells me a story, one that I often don’t consciously listen to, but do learn from. This story, one of colonial dominance, lives on through the markings of place, particularly the toponyms, or place names. In this article, I seek to explore the role of these toponyms in telling a story of place, one that (re ...
openaire   +1 more source

“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
wiley   +1 more source

Looking into urban toponymic verticality: An initial note

Urban Governance
The current vertical/volumetric turn affected various academic fields, including urban scholarship. This short note broadens the critical literature by applying this emerging perspective on urban toponymic systems in the context of urban governance ...
Sergei Basik
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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
wiley   +1 more source

ТОПОНИМИЯ И ЛИНГВОКУЛТУРА – ИСПАНСКИЯТ ЕЗИК КАТО НОСИТЕЛ НА КУЛТУРНА ИДЕНТИЧНОСТ

Linguarum Universe
This article examines toponymy as a vital component in the development of linguocultural competence in teaching Spanish as a foreign language in the Bulgarian educational context.
Михал ПАВЛОВ
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source