Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Nature | History | Society) - Hardcover

Parr, Joy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774817232 ISBN 13: 9780774817233

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. But if global environmental changes continue at their present unsettling pace, how will we make sense of time and place when the air, land, and water around us are no longer familiar?

Joy Parr, one of Canada's premier historians, tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past when state-driven megaprojects such as chemical plants, dams, nuclear reactors, transportation corridors, and new regulatory regimes forced people to cope with radical transformations in their work and home environments. In each case, the familiar was transformed so thoroughly that residents no longer recognized where they lived or, by implication, who they were.

Sensing Changes and its associated website, http://megaprojects.uwo.ca, make a key contribution to environmental history and the emerging field of sensory history. This study offers a timely, prescient perspective on how humans make sense of the world in the face of rapid environmental change.

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Joy Parr is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk in the Geography Department at the University of Western Ontario.

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Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. This book considers how government mega-projects -- dams, power plants, canals, military bases have forced such radical changes that local people no longer recognize their home and workplace--or who they are. It offers a prescient perspective on how humans make sense of a rapidly changing world.

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Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. This book considers how government mega-projects -- dams, power plants, canals, military bases have forced such radical changes that local people no longer recognize their home and workplace--or who they are. It offers a prescient perspective on how humans make sense of a rapidly changing world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774817232
• ISBN 13: 9780774817233
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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