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Joy Parr

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Description: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 recent past where state-driven megaprojects and regulatory and technological changes forced ordinary people to cope with transformations that were so radical that they no longer recognized their home and workplaces or, by implication, who they were. In concert with a groundbreaking, creative, and analytical website, http: // megaprojects.uwo.ca, this timely study offers a prescient perspective on how humans make sense of a rapidly changing world.Joy Parr is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk in the Geography Department at the University of Western Ontario, ."Joy Parr is a wonderful storyteller, and the tales in this book are as harrowing--dealing, as they do, with displacement, danger, and deaths they are engaging and edifying. I was riveted by her descriptions of the disruption visited on the social and sensory lives of the people affected by these megaprojects, and by the resiliency they manifested in the face of radical environmental changes." -David Howes, Concordia University"In this stunningly creative book, Joy Parr asks how twentieth-century 'megaprojects'--dams, power plants, canals, military bases--have transformed local people's most intimate experience of themselves and their environments. The examples are Canadian but the insights are global. This is a mustread for anyone who wants to understand how our modern technology builds our very bodies." -Conevery Bolton Valencius, author of "The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Nature | History | Society). To get started finding Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Nature | History | Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 recent past where state-driven megaprojects and regulatory and technological changes forced ordinary people to cope with transformations that were so radical that they no longer recognized their home and workplaces or, by implication, who they were. In concert with a groundbreaking, creative, and analytical website, http: // megaprojects.uwo.ca, this timely study offers a prescient perspective on how humans make sense of a rapidly changing world.Joy Parr is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk in the Geography Department at the University of Western Ontario, ."Joy Parr is a wonderful storyteller, and the tales in this book are as harrowing--dealing, as they do, with displacement, danger, and deaths they are engaging and edifying. I was riveted by her descriptions of the disruption visited on the social and sensory lives of the people affected by these megaprojects, and by the resiliency they manifested in the face of radical environmental changes." -David Howes, Concordia University"In this stunningly creative book, Joy Parr asks how twentieth-century 'megaprojects'--dams, power plants, canals, military bases--have transformed local people's most intimate experience of themselves and their environments. The examples are Canadian but the insights are global. This is a mustread for anyone who wants to understand how our modern technology builds our very bodies." -Conevery Bolton Valencius, author of "The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Nature | History | Society). To get started finding Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Nature | History | Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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