Sensing changes : technologies, environments, and the everyday, 1953-2003 /

"Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of a world that is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier historians tackles this question by exploring situations in the rece...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parr, Joy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.
Colección:Nature, history, society.
Temas:
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.
Projects de développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement > Canada.
Projects de développement économique > Aspect social > Canada.
Perturbations écologiques > Canada.
Écologie humaine > Canada.
Homme > Influence de l'environnement > Canada.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Canada.
Écologie humaine > Histoire.
Savoirs écologiques traditionnels.
Projets de développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement > Canada.
Projets de développement économique > Aspect social > Canada.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Ecological disturbances.
Economic development projects > Environmental aspects.
Economic development projects > Social aspects.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Human ecology.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Canada.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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