Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus

Basik, Sergei

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.104165

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“…The term's primarily environmental, ecological, or rural dimension is also applied in other studies (see, among others, Boillat, 2023; Kladnik et al., 2020). However, there are geographical works where the term microtoponym is applied to urban objects, which is a theme of this paper (e.g., Basik, 2023a, 2023b).…”

Section: Defining Microtoponymmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cultural and political conflicts between the authorities and locals (Babb, 2001; Basik, 2023a; Brocket, 2021; Madden, 2018; Rose‐Redwood, 2008a; Shoval, 2013).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Urban Microtoponyms As Spatial‐political Phe...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Marii Kolesnikovoy ("Mariia Kolesnikova Square," in honor of one of the leaders and symbols of the Belarusian revolution, later sentenced to jail for 11 years). All vernacular names spatially reflected the critical symbols of protest and were even represented on the protesters' flags (Basik, 2023a).…”

Section: Microtoponymy Of Urban Protestmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The organization of urban symbolic landscapes and placemaking functions of microtoponyms (Basik, 2023b; Bigon et al., 2022; Wideman & Masuda, 2018). Cultural and political conflicts between the authorities and locals (Babb, 2001; Basik, 2023a; Brocket, 2021; Madden, 2018; Rose‐Redwood, 2008a; Shoval, 2013). The vernacular urban names in everyday life (Love, 2021; Olma, 2023; Pred, 1990; Ryu, 2012; Zuvalinyenga, 2020).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Urban Microtoponyms As Spatial‐political Phe...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, during the widespread national protests in 2020 in Minsk, Belarus, several spontaneous microtoponyms, mainly as the names of the courtyards or distribution transformer buildings between the residential high‐rises, emerged in different areas of the city: Ploshchad' Peremen (“the Square of Changes”), Ploshchad' Pravdy (“The Square of Truth”), Ploshchad' Flaga (“The Square of Flag”), Ploshchad' Marii Kolesnikovoy (“Mariia Kolesnikova Square,” in honor of one of the leaders and symbols of the Belarusian revolution, later sentenced to jail for 11 years). All vernacular names spatially reflected the critical symbols of protest and were even represented on the protesters' flags (Basik, 2023a).…”

Section: Future Directions Of Urban Microtoponymic Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Problematizing urban microtoponyms

Basik

2023

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A spatial perspective on microtoponyms, informal non‐standardized names of small objects and places known to the locals, is an often‐neglected segment of urban political toponymic theory and practice. Though critically‐oriented thinkers have acknowledged the role of vernacular place names in the spatial organization of symbolic cultural landscapes, place‐making processes, and the everyday life of people and their communities, conceptual spatial‐political theorizations on this subject have been relatively rare. Driven upon the critical toponymic theory, this paper aims to delineate a conceptual framework for studying urban microtoponyms as spatial phenomena by integrating the toponymic plurality notion. Based on examples primarily from non‐Western geographical contexts, this paper offers a fresh perspective on urban place naming practices and related spatial processes providing some analytical pathways for critical scholars in urban toponymy and guiding potential empirical investigations in this field.

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Section: Defining Microtoponymmentioning

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“…Cultural and political conflicts between the authorities and locals (Babb, 2001; Basik, 2023a; Brocket, 2021; Madden, 2018; Rose‐Redwood, 2008a; Shoval, 2013).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Urban Microtoponyms As Spatial‐political Phe...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Microtoponymy Of Urban Protestmentioning

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Section: Conceptualizing Urban Microtoponyms As Spatial‐political Phe...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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2023

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Exploring the Role of Street Names in the Reproduction of Deinstitutionalised Regions

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Frajer

2024

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Looking theoretically at regions as historically contingent entities that have been evolving over time, this article aims to explore the relationship between the identities of old regions and their symbols through an innovative employment of street names. Methodologically, this study employed Geographic Information System tools, alongside a case study focusing on deinstitutionalised historical regions in the Czech Republic. In this context, street naming practices resulted in different spatial patterns in the symbolic representation of the old regions. It was discovered that regionally named streets perform a different function in terms of the internal and external identity of a region. Hence, our results suggest that the role of street names as actants involved in the reproduction of deinstitutionalised regions is ambiguous and in some ways contradictory. From this perspective, our results are consistent with previous findings that conceptualised deinstitutionalised regions and their boundaries as penumbral entities.

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Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus

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Problematizing urban microtoponyms

Problematizing urban microtoponyms

Exploring the Role of Street Names in the Reproduction of Deinstitutionalised Regions

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