What are place names? From where do they originate? How are they structured? What do
they signify? How important are they in our life? This groundbreaking book explores these …

This paper uses text analysis to measure gender bias in cities through the use of street
names. Focusing on the case of Spain, we collect data on 15 million street names to analyze …

Robert Gabriel Mugabe resigned as the President of Zimbabwe in 2017 after being in office
since 1980 when Zimbabwe gained independence from British colonial rule. Mugabe …

Over the past 2 decades, the critical toponymy literature reached a certain level, both
qualitatively and quantitatively, that it is now both possible and necessary to subject the field …

This article explores the present-day problematic of gender-biased street names as
prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa's cityscapes. That is, the abundance of masculine street …

Regime changes and power transfers usually engender an extensive reordering of the
cultural geography. Incoming political regimes usually reconfigure commemorative …

Abstract Like Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa, Zimbabwe was one of the countries that the
imperial mission had targeted to establish as a settler economy. The objective of creating a …

Activists in the French feminist organization, Osez le féminisme, captured news headlines in
2015 when they unofficially renamed 60 streets in Paris. They covered existing road signs …

This short commentary scrutinizes the contemporary toponymic phenomenon of gendered
street naming in the global South with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa's cities. It reveals …

The gendered patterning of urban street names as part of the spatial production of broader
male-centric memorial landscapes has been documented in a growing body of scholarship …