{"product_id":"sensing-changes-9780774817233","title":"Sensing Changes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. But if global environmental changes continue at their present unsettling pace, how will we make sense of time and place when the air, land, and water around us are no longer familiar?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoy Parr, one of Canada's premier historians, tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past when state-driven megaprojects such as chemical plants, dams, nuclear reactors, transportation corridors, and new regulatory regimes forced people to cope with radical transformations in their work and home environments. In each case, the familiar was transformed so thoroughly that residents no longer recognized where they lived or, by implication, who they were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSensing Changes\u003c\/em\u003e and its associated website, \u003cstrong\u003ehttp:\/\/megaprojects.uwo.ca\u003c\/strong\u003e, make a key contribution to environmental history and the emerging field of sensory history. This study offers a timely, prescient perspective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Media component of \u003cem\u003eSensing Changes\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Lisa Rumiel, McMaster University * Left History, 15.1 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorian and geographer Joy Parr has written an extraordinary book…\u003cem\u003eSensing Changes\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e -- Deborah Davis Jackson, Earlham College * Senses and Society, Vol 6, Issue 2 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: \"Now I am Ready to Tell How Bodies are Changed Into Different Bodies” \/ \u003cem\u003eGraeme Wynn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Megaprojects New Media Series \/ \u003cem\u003eJon van der Veen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction – Embodied Histories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Place and Citizenship – Woodlands, Meadows, and a Military Training Ground: The NATO Base at Gagetown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Safety and Sight – Working Knowledge of the Insensible: Radiation Protection in Nuclear Power Plants, 1962-92\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Movement and Sound – A Walking Village Remade: Iroquois and the St. Lawrence Seaway\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Time and Scale – A River Becomes a Reservoir: The Arrow Lakes and the Damming of the Columbia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Smell and Risk – Uncertainty along a Great Lakes Shoreline: Hydrogen Sulphide and the Production of Heavy Water\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Taste and Expertise – Local Water Diversely Known: The \u003cem\u003eE. coli\u003c\/em\u003e Contamination in Walkerton 2000 and After\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Conclusion: Historically Specific Bodies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404919775575,"sku":"9780774817233","price":65.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sensing-changes-9780774817233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}