Street names (odonyms) and their academic study constitute an important part of onomastic
research. This paper takes stock of the growing literature on street naming processes and …

In the existing body of critical urban place naming scholarship, the spatial politics of
toponymic resistance is among the major theoretical lines. Using the critical toponymic …

The aim of the article is to elucidate the symbolic function of the underexplored geopolitically
motivated phenomenon of toponymic solidarity. Based on the critical toponymic approach …

This commentary points to the problems inherent in critical place names studies in terms of
classic research topics, methodologies and geographies. It expounds the limits of the official …

The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China's Belt and Road
Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around …

The paper looks at the renaming of streets as a significant aspect of post-socialist change
using an example of the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It discusses politics, processes …

The history of Central and Eastern Europe, with its frequent regime changes and border
shifts, is rich in place-name changes. The most radical waves of renaming occurred twice in …

The chapter focuses on the post-socialist toponymic policies, practices, and repertoires in
Vinnytsia, a second-order Ukrainian city, representing the central part of a geopolitically …

The introductory chapter addresses the post-Soviet characteristics of political toponymy as a
field of scholarship and the volume s contributions of theorizing them to the broader spatial …

The 2022 outbreak of the Russian full-scale war against Ukraine has led to a reassessment
of memory politics in Ukraine. The erasure of communist symbols or “decommunization” has …