Identity through Urban Nomenclature: Eight Central European Cities

Stiperski, Zoran; Lorber, Lučka; Heršak, Emil; Ptáček, Pavel; Górka, Z; Kołoś, Arkadiusz; Lončar, Jelena; Faričić, Josip; Miličević, Mirjana; Vujaković, Ana; Hruška, Anita

doi:10.1080/00167223.2011.10669532

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“…Toponyms that arose as a result of decommunization were classified according to a number of criteria. The employed taxonomy is similar to those used in papers of Bucher et al (2013) and Stiperski et al (2015). First, they distinguished toponyms of local, regional, national and international scale; second, the set of street names was classified into basic groups: personalities, geographical names, historical events/ institutions, craft and trade, and the other toponyms.…”

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“…The official factor must be stressed, since identities articulated by political elites are not necessarily the same as in the general population; however, with time, new names may become generally accepted: the political elite decides by whom or by which institution or social events streets will be named, but there is not always a compromise between the elites and the population of the city when naming certain streets. However, with time, new street names may be accepted by population (Stiperski et al 2015;Bucher et al 2013).…”

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“…Changes of street names constitute an important part of the process of creating new public iconographic landscapes in harmony with the values of the new regimes, so analysing such changes may provide important insights into the ways in which post-communist countries alter the contours of national identities and national pasts (Stiperski et al 2015). Graham et al (2000) emphasize that political elites, if they are aware of the symbolic power denoted by space, erase symbols of previous regimes and implant their own ones; new regimes determine new versions of history and new world-views, accentuating persons, events and historical facts that can be useful to their rule, and trying to erase from the population's memory others that might be detrimental to them.…”

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The renaming of streets in post-revolutionary Ukraine: regional strategies to construct a new national identity

Gnatiuk

2018

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After the 2014 revolution, a massive renaming of toponyms related to the communist ideology took place in Ukraine. The results of this renaming help understand the essentiality of Ukrainian delayed post-socialist and post-colonial transition and, in particular, national and regional identities that Ukrainians are going to build, and ideology that local and national authorities are going to impose. This study covers the 36 largest cities in Ukraine with a population of more than 100,000 and focuses on the new street names that appeared as the result of de-communization. It was found that in southeastern Ukraine, the renaming strategy was targeted to avoid the commemorative names, especially those related to military-political events and personalities, as well as to depoliticize urban toponyms, by using non-commemorative categories of street names, like topographical or poetic ones, or restoring the historical toponyms. On the contrary, new toponyms in western and central Ukraine reflect the legacy of the national liberation movements of the 20th century. However, urban toponyms in the most eastern regions, including Donbas, continue to retain close links with the Soviet period. The memory of the Cossack era and Ukrainian Peoples Republic seems to be the well-perceived and common-shared strata of national identity. At the same time, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Soviet legacy remain topics dividing the Ukrainian society. The street renaming process in post-revolutionary Ukraine shares some common characteristics with other post-socialist European countries, such as the appeal to the pre-socialist period in order to reinforce the national identity, replacement of political and military place-names with those related to local and national culture and heritage, and the increased importance of local and regional toponyms.

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“…The semantics of a large group of urbanonyms directly refers to the names of other geographical objects: cities, regions, countries, continents, etc. According to semiotic classification, used by Stiperski et al (2011) and then by Bucher et al (2013), these urban placenames are treated as geographical toponyms and include names derived from rivers, cities, regions, countries, mountains, islands, etc. Dala Costa (2020) follows the similar approach and defines such toponyms as referencing geographical places like cities, villages, countries, mountains or gorges.…”

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“…This group should not be confused with so-called location urbanonyms, deriving from important sites, places and objects within the city. In the literature these two groups of urbanonyms (geographical and location) together are treated as "geography urbanonyms" (Stiperski et al 2011;Bucher et al 2013) or "topographical urbanonyms" (Gnatiuk 2018). Geographical urbanonyms may be classified based on the location of the relevant geographical objects, e.g.…”

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Geopolitics of geographical urbanonyms: evidence from Ukrainian cities

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2020

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This article focuses on geographical urbanonyms in Ukraine-names of streets, squares, lanes, etc. that refer to the names of other geographical objects like cities, regions, countries, or continents. It shows the role of geographical urbanonyms as a powerful instrument used by political regimes to shape political identity by constructing and legitimizing borders between "us" and "them" at different spatial scales. The analysis revealed a significantly higher presence of geographical urbanonyms in Ukraine compared to former state socialist countries in Central Europe. The widespread presence of street names related to the former USSR proves the absence of post-Soviet decolonization in semiotic space, going beyond the pure decommunization, in the majority of Ukrainian cities since 1991. Regional differences in the dynamics, distribution and structure of geographical urbanonyms in Ukraine are explained by the historical, cultural and (geo)political divisions.

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Political patterning of urban namescapes and post-socialist toponymic change: A quantitative analysis of three Romanian cities

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Identity through Urban Nomenclature: Eight Central European Cities

Cited by 19 publications

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The renaming of streets in post-revolutionary Ukraine: regional strategies to construct a new national identity

The renaming of streets in post-revolutionary Ukraine: regional strategies to construct a new national identity

Geopolitics of geographical urbanonyms: evidence from Ukrainian cities

Political patterning of urban namescapes and post-socialist toponymic change: A quantitative analysis of three Romanian cities

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