Sensing changes : technologies, environments, and the everyday, 1953-2003 / Joy Parr ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
Parr, Joy.
2010
HM856 .P37 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Sensing changes : technologies, environments, and the everyday, 1953-2003 / Joy Parr ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
Author Parr, Joy.
ISBN 9780774817233
0774817232
9780774817240 (pbk.)
0774817240 (pbk.)
Publication Details Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xxviii, 270 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HM856 .P37 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.20971
Summary "Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of a world that is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier historians tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past where state-driven megaprojects and regulatory and technological changes forced ordinary people to cope with transformations that were so radical that they no longer recognized their home and workplaces or, by implication, who they were."--BOOK JACKET.
Note "htto://megaprojects.uwo.ca, with new media by Jon van der Veen".
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Nature, history, society.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Introduction: Embodied histories
Place and citizenship : Woodlands, meadows, and a military training ground: the NATO base at Gagetown
Safety and sight : Working knowledge of the insensible: radiation protection in nuclear power plants, 1962-92
Movement and sound : A walking village remade: Iroquois and the St. Lawrence Seaway
Time and scale : A river becomes a reservoir: the Arrow Lakes and the damming of the Columbia
Smell and risk : Uncertainty along a Great Lakes shoreline: hydrogen sulphide and the production of heavy water
Taste and expertise : Local water diversely known: the E. coli contamination in Walkerton 2000 and after
Conclusion : Historically specific bodies.

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