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Vrouwen in Brusselse straatnamen. Topografie van een minorisering
Brussels Studies, 2021 The article proposes an examination of odonyms in Brussels, i.e. the names of its streets, through the prism of gender. After a systematic survey of street names and the characteristics of the female figures honoured – which reveals a glaring imbalance ...
Nouria Ouali +7 more
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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city
City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
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Changes in urban toponymy during the post-Yugoslav period (1990-2018): a comparative study of Zagreb and Belgrade [PDF]
, 2019 Prvostupnički se rad bavi usporedbom promjena urbane toponimije u postjugoslavenskom, odnosno postsocijalističkom periodu u glavnom gradu Republike Hrvatske Zagrebu i glavnom gradu Republike Srbije Beogradu.
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 320-334, May/June 2024.Abstract The Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo (Panama) comprises a protected area of 28 km2 within present‐day Panama City, on America's Pacific coast. In 1519, the Spaniards founded the city of Panama Viejo to secure a natural port in an area inhabited by indigenous peoples since at least the eighth century CE.
Miriam Martos +2 more
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Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные наукиImportance. The activities of Tambov city authorities, public organizations and institutions, their motives in working to preserve military-historical memory in the urban environment during the second half of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries ...
S. S. Kvadiaev
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2018 After the 2014 revolution, a massive renaming of toponyms related to the communist ideology took place in Ukraine. The results of this renaming help understand the essentiality of Ukrainian delayed post-socialist and post-colonial transition and, in ...
Olexiy Gnatiuk
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HOW THÖŊ PINY BECAME JUBA NA BARI: Naming and Place‐Making in Urban South Sudan
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 244-262, March 2024.Abstract Following South Sudan's independence in 2011, a myriad of local, regional and global actors have flocked to its capital city, Juba, to influence and benefit from the ongoing state‐making process. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Juba between 2012 and 2015, this article demonstrates how urban ‘space’ in Juba is rendered into ‘place’
Christian J. Doll
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Şehirsel Toponimi: Denizli Şehri Cadde Adları Tipolojisi Üzerine Bir Eleştirel Deneme
Coğrafi Bilimler DergisiUrban place names initially emerged organically from the interaction between humans and their natural and social environments. However, once the significance of toponyms in conveying and constructing social identities was recognized, the naming of places
Abdullah Uğur
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Völkerpsychologie as a field science: José Miguel de Barandiarán and Basque ethnology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2024.Abstract José Miguel de Barandiarán considered the central figure of Basque anthropology, played a prominent role in the Basque people's cultural rescue (material and spiritual). His dual status as an ethnologist and priest prepared him to study collective mentalities and rural societies.
Aitor Anduaga
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Urban toponymy as a tool for interpreting the physical environment. A case study: Barcelona's mediaeval old town [PDF]
, 2020 Barcelona's mediaeval old town, today known as Ciutat Vella, is predominantly flat in appearance. However, a more detailed inspection reveals it to stand on a physical base of very uneven altitude, with numerous changes of gradient between high- and low ...
Tort i Donada, Joan, 1958- +1 more
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