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Gender and race representation in street renaming in Pretoria/Tshwane

Map of the Month, 2023
Thembani Mkhize, Yashena Naidoo
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The politics of renaming "colonial" streets in Francistown, Botswana

2014
Francistown is located in the North East district (part of the former Tati district) in Botswana. It was "founded" in 1897 by Daniel Francis, an English prospector and the first director of the Tati Concessions (today called the Tati Company). The Tati Concessions administered the Tati district like a colony within a protectorate after annexing and ...
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Renaming of Geographical Places and Streets in Slovenia 1945-1955

Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino, 1996
Spreminjanje krajevnih in uličnih imen je eno izmed vidnejših zunanjih obeležij zamenjave oblasti leta 1945 na Slovenskem. Pred 2. svetovno vojno je precej imen izhajalo iz krščanske tradicije in nosilo imena svetnikov, redov ali cerkva, krajevna imena so bila deloma še nemška, ulice pa so nosile tudi imena nekdanjih političnih veljakov.
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Street renaming as cultural resistance: decommunization and identity in rural Ukrainian settlements

Research for Rural Development
This study examines the renaming of streets in rural communities of Ukraine, which represents one of the essential aspects of the decommunization process initiated by a series of 2015 laws banning the use of communist and National Socialist totalitarian regime symbols. Henri Lefebvreʼs theory of the production of space is employed to analyze how street
Yaroslav Burdin, Svitlana Salnikova, Mykola Sydorov   +2 more
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(In)correctness in renaming certain streets following the Russia‑Ukraine war

Proceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics ”Name and Naming”
The war initiated by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the entire world due to the violence and absurdity of a European conflict in the 21st century, as well as due to its disregard for UN treaties and provisions. The international community’s reactions were swift and, from the very first days, also had onomastic implications.
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CAMPAIGNS ON RENAMING SETTLEMENTS AND STREETS IN THE KALININGRAD REGION

Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University
The article compares the results of mass renominations of 2,497 settlements and 1,000 streets carried out by the Soviet authorities after the incorporation of Northeast Prussia into the USSR. In theoretical terms, these renamings are interpreted as a post-war systematic renewal of the toponymic landscape aimed at establishing a new regional identity ...
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Renaming London streets

Notes and Queries, 1914
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Street Renaming in Postsocialist Romania:

2023
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Renaming of places and streets in the post-communist Croatia in the early 1990s

2008
The paper presents an analysis of renaming of places and streets in the post-communist Croatia in the early 1990s as a kind of social and political process typical of the period in question.
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‘Rename the Streets’: The Challenges of Decolonizing Toponymy in Toronto Canada

Ukrainian Historical Review, 2023
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