What is not in a name? Toponymic ambivalence, identity, and symbolic resistance in the Nepali flatlands
This paper seeks to understand how elites utilize toponyms to either underscore territorial claims and belonging to a nation or to undermine those claims. Analyzing the names of the Nepali flatlands, Tarai and Madhes with a focus on the latter, it shows how ambivalent meanings attached to the topony...
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Language: | fra |
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Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique
2020-09-01
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Series: | EchoGéo |
Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/19987 |
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