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Assembling “Japantown”? A critical toponymy of urban dispossession in Vancouver, Canada [PDF]
Urban Geography, 2017 Geographic scholarship in critical toponymy has highlighted the importance of place naming as a form of discursive power within processes of urbanization. This paper builds on such literature and advances a novel theory of toponymic assemblage to interpret findings from a participatory research project in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada.
Trevor James Wideman, Jeffrey R. Masuda
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Toponymy as Commodity: Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Urban Place Names [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2014 AbstractIn recent years the study of urban toponymy (place names) has been revitalized by the emergence of a ‘critical toponymies' approach. This focuses on the cultural politics of place naming and the decisions involved in attributing names to the urban landscape.
Young, C, Light, D
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Toponymy and the City, the Past and the Future
Проект Байкал, 2015 The article reviews and analyses the concepts of toponymy, basing on the exchange of ideas between the members of the Toponymy Council and the Editorial Board of the journal. The names of the new urban entities of Irkutsk are proposed.
Marina Tkacheva
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The Influence of Toponymy on the Identity of City Residents (Based on Materials from Irkutsk)
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 The article considers the urban toponymy of Irkutsk. Features of formation and development, features of influence on the identity of inhabitants and prospects of transformation are analyzed. Also, legislative contradictions are shown. In the present work,
Oksana Alexandrovna Polyuskevich
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Toponymy in a Relocated City: the City of Most, Czech Republic [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2018 This article addresses the toponymy of the North Bohemian city of Most, Czech Republic, and its development during the second half of the 20th century.
Jaroslav David
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KHARKIV TOPONYMY: STAGES OF DECOMMUNIZATION
Місто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2017 In the artiсle, the author has analyzed a practical application of the Law of Ukraine “On Denouncing the Communist and the National-Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and Banning the Propaganda of their Symbols" on the example of Kharkiv ...
Mariya Takhtaulova
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Expression of Identity in Urban Toponymy of the Towns in Kvarner and Istria
Hrvatski geografski glasnik/Croatian Geographical Bulletin, 2008 Identity is a group of characteristics which determine the distinctiveness of an individual or a group in terms of differences from or affiliation with other individuals or groups; accordingly, it follows that to identify oneself means to (self)determine the self.
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Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные наукиImportance. The activities of the Tambov city authorities, public organizations and institutions, their motives in the work on the preservation of military historical memory in the urban enviro nment during the second half of the 20th – beginning of the ...
S. S. Kvadiaev
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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Globally, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are fighting for the recognition of their knowledge and decision‐making authority in freshwater conservation. In the Amazon, decision‐making around freshwater management and conservation has often overlooked Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and the connections between ...
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The Study and Classification of Medieval Urban Toponymy
Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, 2007 exaly +2 more sources