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Joy Parr - Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 - 9780774817233 - V9780774817233
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Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003

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Description for Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 Hardback. These narratives about state-driven megaprojects and technological and regulatory changes reveal how humans make sense of their world in the face of rapid environmental change. Series: Nature | History | Society. Num Pages: 222 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; RN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 567.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Series
Nature | History | Society
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774817233
SKU
V9780774817233
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
The New Media component of Sensing Changes is a wonderful illustration of how we can and should engage our students in multi-sensory ways and how we, as historians, must move beyond privileging the written word.
Lisa Rumiel, McMaster University
Left History, 15.1
Historian and geographer Joy Parr has written an extraordinary book…Sensing Changes will make important contributions ... Read more

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