Main entry:

Parr, Joy.

Title & Author:

Sensing changes : technologies, environments, and the everyday, 1953-2003 / Joy Parr ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, ©2010.

Description:

xxviii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Series:

Nature, history, society

Notes:
"Htto://megaprojects.uwo.ca, with new media by Jon van der Veen."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Megaprojects New Media

ISBN:

9780774817233 (bound)
0774817232 (bound)
9780774817240 (pbk.)
0774817240 (pbk.)
9780774817257 (e-book)
0774817259 (e-book)

Subject:

Economic development projects Environmental aspects Canada.
Economic development projects Social aspects Canada.
Ecological disturbances Canada.
Human ecology Canada.
Human beings Effect of environment on Canada.
Nature Effect of human beings on Canada.
Human ecology History.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Projects de développement économique Aspect de l'environnement Canada.
Projects de développement économique Aspect social Canada.
Perturbations écologiques Canada.
Écologie humaine Canada.
Homme Influence de l'environnement Canada.
Homme Influence sur la nature Canada.
Écologie humaine Histoire.
Savoirs écologiques traditionnels.
Projets de développement économique Aspect de l'environnement Canada.
Projets de développement économique Aspect social Canada.
Ecological disturbances.
Economic development projects Environmental aspects.
Economic development projects Social aspects.
Human beings Effect of environment on.
Human ecology.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Technologiemanagement
Ökologie
Humanekologi historia.
Människans påverkan på naturen.
Canada.
Kanada

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Nature, history, society.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295183
Call No.: BIB 241273
Status: Available