Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003

by Joy Parr

Our 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? Joy 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774817240
• ISBN13: 9780774817240
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"