Uncovering disciplined pasts: Tour guiding through Kyiv's changing place names

Schlegel, Simon; Pfoser, Alena

doi:10.1080/02757206.2021.1881082

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“…Similar to what happened across the rest of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe in the years that followed the collapse of socialist regimes (Azaryahu, 1997;Diener and Hagen, 2013;Gill, 2005;Light, 2004;Palonen, 2008;Schlegel and Pfoser, 2021;Tucker, 1998;Verdery, 1999), in Uzbekistan, too, the administration of President Islom Karimov (1991Karimov ( -2016 attempted to rewrite the historical narrative by carefully eliminating the material manifestations of socialist ideology from the urban landscape (Bell, 1999). As part of this process, often referred to as dekommunizatsiia (decommunization), thousands of official place-names were replaced with novel ones more accurately representing newly minted imaginings of Uzbek nationhood.…”

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The Collective Image of the City: Informal Taxis and the Production of Vernacular Toponyms in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Olma

2023

City & Society

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Decades of politically motivated place renaming have prompted the population of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to adopt a bottom‐up vernacular toponymic register, wherein locations are indicated in relation to points of reference known as orientiry. Orientiry take cues from the built environment and are generated through the population's affective pluritemporal engagements with the city. Accordingly, they can take different material forms, but they can also be dropped or discursively replaced by new ones situated temporally or physically closer to the population's everyday experiences. This article argues that orientiry are kept more or less coherent by the need for Tashkent dwellers to indicate locations to their fellow residents and especially to Tashkent's informal taxi drivers. Orientiry are proliferated and standardized by the exchange of environmental information that occurs between driver and passenger as they find their way through various places and temporalities. The article demonstrates how a combination of cognition, affect, and social stimuli shapes wayfinding in Tashkent, revealing the city's orientiry as a representation of a collective image of the city—an assemblage of individual mental maps that overlap, interfere, contradict, and exclude one another and yet remain functional by similar habitual use of the city.

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The Collective Image of the City: Informal Taxis and the Production of Vernacular Toponyms in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Olma

2023

City & Society

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Uncovering disciplined pasts: Tour guiding through Kyiv's changing place names

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The Collective Image of the City: Informal Taxis and the Production of Vernacular Toponyms in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The Collective Image of the City: Informal Taxis and the Production of Vernacular Toponyms in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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