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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parr, Joy
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Nature, history, society.
Subjects:
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.
Physical Description:xxviii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Graeme Wynn
  • The Megaprojects New Media Series / Jon van der Veen
  • 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.