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Naming places

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  • 13 October 2021
  • Frédéric Giraut
    • Sciences de la société, UNIGE
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Our world is full of place-names, names of regions, villages, valleys. Does naming a place matter? Is there a proper way to do it? And who does it? To make this questioning visible, a new UNESCO Chair in inclusive toponymy is being created at the University of Geneva: "Dénommer le Monde".

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