Sensing changes technologies, environments, and the everyday, 1953 - 2003
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 rema...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Vancouver u.a.
UBC Press
2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | Nature, history, society
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Economic development projects
> Environmental aspects
> Social aspects
> Ecological disturbances
> Human ecology
> Human beings
> Effect of environment on
> Nature
> Effect of human beings on
> History
> Traditional ecological knowledge
> Kanada
> Technologiemanagement
> Ökologie
> Geschichte 1953-2003
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 243-253 Enth.ein Register The associated website at http://megaprojects.uwo.ca features creative, analytical works that further deepen the book’s interpretations Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge and laboratories in which to retool our senses and practices in response to changing circumstances. If global environmental changes continue at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of the cascade of new normals, where 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 and regulatory and environmental changes forced people to cope with radical transformations in their work and home environments. The construction of dams, chemical plants, nuclear reactors, and military training grounds; new patterns in seasonal rains; and developments in animal husbandry altered the daily lives of ordinary people and essentially disrupted their embodied understandings of the world. Familiar worlds were transformed so thoroughly that residents no longer knew the place where they lived or, by implication, who they were |
| Beschreibung: | XXVIII, 270 S. Ill.,graph. Darst., Kt. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780774817233 978-0-7748-1723-3 0774817232 0-7748-1723-2 9780774817240 978-0-7748-1724-0 |