Streets named after females in Tuva as a case of preserving the social memory of an ethnicity
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2021.1.10Keywords:
street naming; ethnic urbanism; women's history; city; city culture; historical and cultural heritage; toponymy; social memory; Tuva; Tuvans; Tuvan names; KyzylAbstract
For the first time in Russian historiography, the article raises the issue of gender imbalance in the names of streets in the Republic of Tuva. The article is is based on the study of street naming in the cities of Kyzyl, Ak-Dovurak, Shagonar, Chadan, Turan, and urban-type settlement Kaa-Khem, as well as a number of rural localities. Among the 1325 streets of Tuvan urban settlements only 15 have been discovered as named after women, which is approximately 1% of the total. To compare, there are 40 streets with “female names” in Moscow among 3127 streets - approximately 1.2%.
The authors analyze the abundance of male names in street naming, and compare this toponymical phenomenon with the picture in other cities of the Russian Federation and foreign countries, explaining the gender-biased causes of naming by the unequal distribution of power between the sexes in Soviet and post-Soviet history. Examining the set-up of a memorial landscape in the post-Soviet space, the authors find reasons for why the imbalance persists, in the lack of town planning legislation (which does not require compliance with it), in the prevailing gender stereotypes of the ethnic culture and the traditional (patriarchal) gender contract.
The authors thus draw attention to the problem of the imbalance in urban and rural toponymy, and of insufficient recognition of women's contribution to the historical and cultural heritage of Tuva.
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Pushkareva N. L. and Zhidchenko A. V. Streets named after females in Tuva as a case of preserving the social memory of an ethnicity. New Research of Tuva, 2021, no. 1, pp. 188-201. (In Russ.). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.25178/nit.2021.1.10
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Natalia L. Pushkareva, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, RAS
Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Center for Gender Studies, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Alexander V. Zhidchenko, The University of Kansas
PhD in History, Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Kansas University.
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