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

Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774817233)

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Format: Hardcover
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Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 by Parr, Joy

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

$37.95
Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 by Parr, Joy

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

$37.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 ground-breaking, creative, and analytical website, megaprojects.uwo.ca, this timely study offers a prescient perspective on how humans make sense of a rapidly changing world.

Author: Joy Parr
ISBN-10: 0774817232
ISBN-13: 9780774817233
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2010 pg. 8
By Joy Parr
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Joy Parr is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk in the Geography Department at the University of Western Ontario, .

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