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EchoGéo, 2020 This paper examines the sources and stakes of the conflict of referents in the naming of roads and neighbourhoods in Yaoundé. This observed polyphony is attributed to the coexistence of popular and official registers of urban production.
Gaston Ndock Ndock
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1041-1059, December 2025.Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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THE AGRICULTUREME "LOCALITY" AS A REPRESENTATION OF LINGUISTICS AND CULTURE IN THE TOPONYMY OF ENGLAND AND THE USA [PDF]
, 2023 The article compares the agricultureme "locality" in England and the USA. In both the USA and England, agriculture plays a significant role in shaping the linguistic and cultural aspects of localities.
Khabibullaeva Khurliman Muratbayevna
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Aydın’da mahalle, bulvar, cadde ve sokak adları: Şehirsel toponimik özellikleri
Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi, 2014 Knowing the sources of place names are important for the new generations in order to possess their cultural elements, to understand and perceive their living space.
Sultan Baysan, Aysun Kara
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HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 95-110, January 2025.Abstract This article explores the complex connections between gentrification, heritage and othering in Amsterdam Oost, a district shaped by intertwined (post)colonial and (post)migrant histories. It does so by examining two temporary heritage‐making initiatives coordinated by the nearby ethnographic Tropenmuseum to celebrate the rich immigration ...
Elisa Fiore, Vittoria Caradonna
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Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 69, Issue 1, Spring / printemps 2025.Abstract North America is characterized by an expansive continental plain that has been described as platter‐flat. Yet this central continental plain includes isolated uplands that some people call mountains. The hill‐mountain muddle is a classic problem of geomorphology, arising from the challenge of discriminating continuous, attached forms.
Murray M. Humphries +3 more
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Russian Social and Humanitarian StudiesBackground. The article presents a lexical and semantic analysis of the toponymy of the Mordovian village Teshnyar in the Sosnovoborsky district of the Penza region and its environs.
Nikolay V. Belenov
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 1490-1504, November 2024.Debates about the impacts of human settlement on Madagascar's habitat have missed the Malagasy perspective. Using indigenous and local knowledge in the form of toponyms, we find many regions across today's treeless grasslands are named after forest/trees, suggesting they may be novel.
Grant S. Joseph +4 more
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Pushed off the map: Toponymy and the politics of place in New York City
, 2017 This article examines conflicts over neighbourhood renaming and the politics of place. Toponymy, or the practice of place naming, is central to the constitution of place, and neighbourhood renaming is a pervasive urban strategy.
David J Madden, Madden, David J.
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Sense of Place in Latin America: Mobilities, Territorialities, and Fear
Geography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2024.ABSTRACT Sense of place has become relevant in Latin America in recent decades. Although many scholars have looked at people‐place relationships there, language barriers have limited the international exposure of these studies. By assembling a collection of works mainly published in Spanish and Portuguese, we trace the fields of research where the ...
Adrián Ortega‐Iturriaga +3 more
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