"This book provides cutting-edge insights on contemporary geopolitical toponymic policy and practice in post-Soviet countries. It examines the political features of place naming as a reflection of contemporary political discourse.
With multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, chapters explore a range of topics drawing on critical political toponymy and traditional methods. Contributions examine how the toponymic system can act as a symbol of national identity, the regional geopolitics of toponymy, and geopolitical patterns in contemporary renaming. The historical roots of toponymic decolonization are analyzed, as well as indigenous toponymy and politics, and toponymic aspects of people's daily lives. The book explores a wide range of processes in the post-Soviet realm, including power, identity, economy, social order, and how political power is changing/transforming. It considers how these processes are distributed through various geopolitical and political-economic technologies.
Offering empirically rich research from a variety of regions to give insights beyond ""Western"" perspectives, this book is the first to provide an in-depth exploration of post-Soviet place naming. It will appeal to students and researchers in human geography, politics, sociology, Eastern European studies, onomastics and cultural studies."
Edited by:
Sergei Basik
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032274928
ISBN 10: 1032274921
Series: Routledge Geopolitics Series
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"1. Encountering Toponymic (Geo)politics in the Post-Soviet States: Introduction. 2. The ""Ultimate Toponym"" and National Imaginaries in Georgia and Azerbaijan: Inhibiting Imaginaries of Borchali Among Georgia’s Azeri-Turks 3. Nation-Building by Virtue of the Local Renaissance: ""Exemplary"" Decommunization of Street Names in Vinnytsia, Ukraine 4. Representation of Regional Identity in Toponymic Policy of Kazan (Russia) 5. Communist Markers in the Information Space of Post-Communist Society: The Case of Ukraine 6. Toponymic Transformation in the Capital Centers of the North Caucasus: The Politics of Identity and Memory 7. Naming the Arctic and Siberia: The Role of Cartographic Agencies in the Soviet Toponymic Policy and Practice 8. Radical Memorialization in Kazakhstan: Spaces, Places, and Capitals 9. Onomaturgies of Toponymic Commodification in Minsk, Belarus 10. Conclusion: Toward the Future Post-Soviet Political Toponymies Index"
Sergei Basik is a college professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Conestoga College, Canada.
