Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics

Place Names as a Political Instrument in the Post-Soviet States
Herausgeber: Basik, Sergei

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides cutting-edge insights on contemporary geopolitical toponymic policy and practice in post-Soviet countries. It examines the political features of place naming as a reflection of contemporary political discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781032274874
• ISBN-10: 1032274875
• Artikelnr.: 64668240

Autorenporträt

Sergei Basik is a college professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Conestoga College, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Encountering Toponymic (Geo)politics in the Post-Soviet States:
Introduction.
2. The "Ultimate Toponym" and National Imaginaries in Georgia and
Azerbaijan: Inhibiting Imaginaries of Borchali Among Georgia's Azeri-Turks
3. Nation-Building by Virtue of the Local Renaissance: "Exemplary"
Decommunization of Street Names in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
4. Representation of Regional Identity in Toponymic Policy of Kazan
(Russia)
5. Communist Markers in the Information Space of Post-Communist Society:
The Case of Ukraine
6. Toponymic Transformation in the Capital Centers of the North Caucasus:
The Politics of Identity and Memory
7. Naming the Arctic and Siberia: The Role of Cartographic Agencies in the
Soviet Toponymic Policy and Practice
8. Radical Memorialization in Kazakhstan: Spaces, Places, and Capitals
9. Onomaturgies of Toponymic Commodification in Minsk, Belarus
10. Conclusion: Toward the Future Post-Soviet Political Toponymies
Index