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

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Bibliographic Details
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
Main Author:
Parr, Joy
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.
Format: Book
Sensing changes : technologies, environments, and the everyday, 1953-2003 /
Table of Contents:
  • 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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