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

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  • Author: Parr, Joy
    Contents:
    • 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.
    Subject(s): Canada, History, Nature
    Original Publisher: Vancouver , UBC Press
    Language(s): English

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Subject
Canada
History
Nature
Publisher (Source)

Vancouver

UBC Press

Not specified
ISBN

0774817232

9780774817233

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