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No Honor in Genocide: A Case Study of Street Renaming and Community Organizing in the Wake of National Decolonization Efforts

Journal of Hate Studies, 2021
The United States hosts countless streets, structures, and cities named after colonial and military leaders. Although many of these white historical figures, like Robert E.
Margo Hill
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Memorial Ambivalences in Postcommunist Romania: Generational Attitudes towards the Symbolic Legacy of Communism

Societies, 2021
After the demise of state socialism, public space became an issue of contention that occupied an important place within societies’ efforts to come to terms with the recent past.
Mihai Stelian Rusu, Alin Croitoru
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The space of metaphor in the space of the created locus (based on Hrant Matevosyan’s prose) [PDF]

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
Any city holds hidden meanings associated with its history, intentional or unintentional plans of builders, representations of power and practices of residents, revealing archaic or pseudo-archaic elements in the city structure.
Levon H. Abrahamian, Gayane Н. Shagoyan
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The Ulica Nikite Tolstoja hodonym on the city map of Vršac (Serbia)

Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2023
This paper is devoted to the renaming of Ljubljanska street in the city of Vršac (Serbia) to commemorate Nikita Tolstoy on May 22, 2005. The paper’s author, who was then working as a Humanities Program assistant at the Russian Center of Science and ...
Marina Obizhaeva
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Challenging Majority Nationalism: the Renaming of Streets in Catalonia [PDF]

Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2019
After the 2017 pro-independence referendum took place in Catalonia, many municipalities changed the names of the streets to commemorate the event. In order to do so, in some cases the names related to the central state were removed, such as those related to the constitution or the king.
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Lexicographic Problems of Urbanonymy: Names of Topographic Objects in Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2018
Legal regulation of the issues of naming, renaming, normalization and codification, registration, and preservation of city names is tied with the linguistic problem of the toponymic space delimitation.
Yulia A. Kachalkova
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Pleknaamsverandering in Suid- Afrika: bevestiging van ANC mag, gesag, wettigheid en ‘selfrespek’

Acta Academica, 2007
Power and authority appear to underlie changes in nomenclature resulting from a need to assure and convince the supporters of a new rregime that names which previously symbolised their oppression and domination have become unacceptable and must be ...
Johan Moll
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Historical Narratives and Public Memory in Urban Space

Names
This study examines street names within the Hankow Concession. More specifically, it focuses on investigating street naming and renaming practices during and after the Concession Era.
Ran An
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COMMUNIZATION AND DE-COMMUNIZATION OF TOPONYMS IN KAMYANETS’-PODIL’S’KY

Місто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2017
The Communisation about change on toponymy map in Kamyanets’-Podil’s’ky during the 1920s – early ХХІ century. Within the first 20 years of Soviet rule, most microtoponyms that did not fit into the ideological system of the Communist Party were renamed –
Ihor Starenkyi, Yaryna Zaishliuk
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Stabilising Routines in Complex Emergencies: How Basic Service Continuity Shapes Perceived Security

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how locally embedded actors describe the relationship between basic service continuity and perceived security in complex emergencies, with particular attention to the stabilisation of everyday routines. Using Proximity‐Predictability‐Attributability (PPA) as an analytic lens, we trace how interviewees relate access to water,
Abdullah Gökhan Yaşa, Orçun İmga
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