The space of metaphor in the space of the created locus (based on Hrant Matevosyan’s prose)
... Soviet architectural objects to toponymic transformations. Analyzing examples of street renaming, the authors reveal how
ideological strategies are manifested both in state
initiatives and in local commercial names. Particular attention is paid to
protest movements (from 1988 to 2022), in which the street acts as a space for
the articulation of collective subjectivity. Methodologically, the work draws
on the semiotics of space, the anthropology of the city and the theory of
representation (including Lefebvre),...
