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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joy ParrPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Edition: 2nd Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9780774817240ISBN 10: 0774817240 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 July 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword: Now I am Ready to Tell How Bodies are Changed Into Different Bodies / Graeme Wynn The Megaprojects New Media Series / Jon van der Veen 1 Introduction - Embodied Histories 2 Place and Citizenship - Woodlands, Meadows, and a Military Training Ground: The NATO Base at Gagetown 3 Safety and Sight - Working Knowledge of the Insensible: Radiation Protection in Nuclear Power Plants, 1962-92 4 Movement and Sound - A Walking Village Remade: Iroquois and the St. Lawrence Seaway 5 Time and Scale - A River Becomes a Reservoir: The Arrow Lakes and the Damming of the Columbia 6 Smell and Risk - Uncertainty along a Great Lakes Shoreline: Hydrogen Sulphide and the Production of Heavy Water 7 Taste and Expertise - Local Water Diversely Known: The E. coli Contamination in Walkerton 2000 and After 8 Conclusion: Historically Specific Bodies Notes Select Bibliography IndexReviewsThe 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 to the field of sensory studies and that other readers, approaching their own topics in diverse locations and from various disciplinary backgrounds, will, like this reviewer, find edification and inspiration in the pages of this remarkable book. -- Deborah Davis Jackson, Earlham College * Senses and Society, Vol 6, Issue 2 * Historian and geographer Joy Parr has written an extraordinary book...Sensing Changes will make important contributions to the field of sensory studies and that other readers, approaching their own topics in diverse locations and from various disciplinary backgrounds, will, like this reviewer, find edification and inspiration in the pages of this remarkable book. -- Deborah Davis Jackson, Earlham College Senses and Society, Vol 6, Issue 2 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 Author InformationJoy Parr is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk in the Geography Department at the University of Western Ontario. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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