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 …

Street names are mundane spatial markers that besides providing a sense of orientation
inscribe onto the landscape the ideological ethos and political symbols of hegemonic …

Critical scholars of place-name studies have compellingly demonstrated that significant
transformations in a society's namescape follow suit major power shifts and regime changes …

The gender relations of power embedded within the urban landscape and materialized in
street nomenclature remain an underexplored topic in place-name studies. This paper …

Extant scholarship on football stadium names is almost exclusively restricted to discussing
naming rights deals as expressions of toponymic commodification. Departing from this rather …

Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street
names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective …

Political geographers and sociologists working in the field of critical toponymies have
demonstrated that renaming the streetscape follows invariably after a regime change …

The topic of this paper is the ideological perspective on the names of city streets in a post-
socialist context. Studies of post-socialist cities have indicated that the symbolic …

This paper aims to present and discuss the method of geocoding historical place names
from historic maps that cannot be georeferenced in the GIS environment. This concerns …

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 …