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.
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.
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
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
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