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We present the results of an interdisciplinary project exploring street name changes in Leipzig (Germany), over the past 102 years. Our analysis focuses on the ways in which semantic choices in the streetscape express the national past and support the hegemonic socio-political order by visualising waves of street (re)naming during a century of political turmoil. Drawing on historical archival data allows us to interpret spatial and temporal patterns as the public embodiment of subsequent political state ideologies, demonstrating that the indexing of officially sanctioned identity and ideology as well as the appropriation of urban space are performed by and in turn index state- hegemonic politics of memory.

In 1982, the Mississippi University for Women made the transition to coeducation, which was a controversial decision, and was quickly followed by the issue of should the name of the university be changed in order to accommodate the changing gender standards and norms throughout society. MUW is one of only two public universities that has opened its doors to men without changing its name. This research looks at the attempted name changes through the lens of archival documents within the Beulah Culbertson Archives as well as comparing these events to fellow women-only universities' path to coeducation and name changes. The research looks at the motivations for the proposed name changes as well as the reactions of university officials, students, and alumni. This study reveals that establishing trust between university officials, students, and alumni will be critically important if a name change is desired, and proponents would be wise to focus careful attention to the preservation of the university's women-focused history and mission.

AbstractIn this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a government will cause changes in the names of ministerial units. To this end we formulate hypotheses combining the politics of structural choice and theories of portfolio allocation to examine the effects of political changes at the cabinet level on the names of intra‐ministerial units. We constructed a dataset containing more than 17,000 observations on name changes of ministerial units between 1980 and 2013 from the central governments of Germany, the Netherlands, and France. We regress a series of generalized estimating equations (GEE) with population averaging models for binary outcomes. Finding variations across the three political‐bureaucratic systems, we overall report positive effects of governmental change and ideological positions on name changes within ministries.