Sensing Changes
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Sensing Changes
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
Table of Contents
Foreword: "Now I am Ready to Tell How Bodies are Changed Into Different Bodies” / Graeme Wynn
The Megaprojects New Media Series / Jon van der Veen
1 Introduction – Embodied Histories
2 Place and Citizenship – Woodlands, Meadows, and a Military Training Ground: The NATO Base at Gagetown
3 Safety and Sight – Working Knowledge of the Insensible: Radiation Protection in Nuclear Power Plants, 1962-92
4 Movement and Sound – A Walking Village Remade: Iroquois and the St. Lawrence Seaway
5 Time and Scale – A River Becomes a Reservoir: The Arrow Lakes and the Damming of the Columbia
6 Smell and Risk – Uncertainty along a Great Lakes Shoreline: Hydrogen Sulphide and the Production of Heavy Water
7 Taste and Expertise – Local Water Diversely Known: The E. coli Contamination in Walkerton 2000 and After
8 Conclusion: Historically Specific Bodies
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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