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“Ideological” Urban Place Names and the Renaming of City Streets [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The paper addresses a topical problem of renaming city objects, arising from repeated claims for removing a large number of names and titles associated with the most odious figures of the Soviet era.
Yulia A. Kachalkova, Maria E. Ruth
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective identity that are embroiled with power relations.
Mihai Stelian Rusu
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Cogent Arts and HumanitiesDrawing 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 +1 more
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Street Renaming as a Means of Symbolic Insult and a Diplomatic Slap in International Relations
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2023 This article finds that states can use street renaming as an act of retaliation against other international actors (states and international organizations). Specifically, it shows how states can employ street renaming to symbolically insult and thus diminish their opponent’s sense of self.
Enav Birnbaum
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2018 After the 2014 revolution, a massive renaming of toponyms related to the communist ideology took place in Ukraine. The results of this renaming help understand the essentiality of Ukrainian delayed post-socialist and post-colonial transition and, in ...
Olexiy Gnatiuk
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Open Political Science, 2017 Abstract During and after democratic transition in Poland, the decommunization of urban toponomy became an important aspect of symbolic changes. Although the general course of street renaming was similar in the whole country, the pace of these changes as well as scope of tolerance towards the symbols of the past varied.
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Modernisation of the historical memory and national identity in the Republic of Kazakhstan: a means of the formation and translation [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 In this paper, the problems of the construction of civic identity in the Republic of Kazakhstan are addressed. As the area for the research, Akmola Oblast was chosen.
Klyuchareva V.V. , Korusenko S.N.
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Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2022 The paper looks at the renaming of streets as a significant aspect of post-socialist change using an example of the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It discusses politics, processes and practices of (de-re)commemoration in street names, which reflect ...
Alexandra Bitušíková
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Public inertia towards the new toponymic landscapes in Vinnytsia, Ukraine [PDF]
Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society, 2023 The paper focuses on the practices of everyday use of street names after the massive toponymic cleansing under the frameworks of decommunisation and de-Russification in Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
Oleksiy Gnatiuk +3 more
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Towards a taxonomy of arguments for and against street renaming [PDF]
Linguistic Landscape. An international journal, 2022 Abstract In 2016, a special issue of the Linguistic Landscapes: An International Journal explored the nexus between LL and collective memory studies, calling for more research at the interface of these disciplines. Our analysis adds to recent studies by exploring the ways in which commemorative street renaming processes are discursively embedded.
Isabelle Buchstaller +2 more
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