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Politics and counter-politics of identity and space: Several cases from Belgrade’s streets in the 2000s [PDF]
With the onset of political overturn in Serbia in 2000, the process of the ideological reconfiguration of public places was simultaneously being put in motion.
Radović Srđan
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(Od)onomastics of Ljubljana and Belgrade - indicator of Serbian-Slovenian ties in recent past [PDF]
Naming and renaming of streets and other public spaces is an area of research interest of several social sciences; street names (odonyms), particularly official street names, are seen as symbols in urban space which cater for various politics of
Radović Srđan
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La guerre, des lieux et des noms. L’Ukraine à l’heure de la décommunisation
In this contribution, we address the decommunization policy reestablished in Ukraine in 2015 and its specific implementation by the renaming of street and city names.
Alexia Kis-Marck
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Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain
Memories of old conflicts often shape domestic politics long after these conflicts end. Contemporary debates about past civil wars and/or repressive regimes in different parts of the world suggest that these are sensitive topics that might increase ...
Francisco Villamil, Laia Balcells
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Naming and renaming of urban space often is sensitive in terms of the street location and status and implies categorization of streets according to the perceived importance of a street name.
Oleksiy Gnatiuk, Victoria Glybovets
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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 Ulica Nikite Tolstoja hodonym on the city map of Vršac (Serbia)
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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Commemorative cityscapes: spatio-temporal patterns in street names in Leipzig, East Germany and Poznań, Poland [PDF]
This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a comparative longitudinal study on changes in the urban toponymy of Leipzig (Germany) and Poznań (Poland) over a period of 102 years.
Dobkiewicz, Patryk +4 more
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Lexicographic Problems of Urbanonymy: Names of Topographic Objects in Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk [PDF]
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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Challenging Majority Nationalism: the Renaming of Streets in Catalonia [PDF]
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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