Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics - Place Names As a Political Instrument in the Post-Soviet States

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sergei Basik
• Assisted by: Sergei Basik (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032274874
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227487-4
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Geopolitics Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Politics & government, Politics and government, Human Geography, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)