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