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Joy Parr a Southampton summer resident has written a new book. She is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Western Ontario. Her current research interests are:
The historically specific sensing body; the influences of large scale
technologies on their neighbours; chemical, radiological and
microbiological contamination in landscapes and workplaces; social and
cultural responses to power generation; ergonomic design in manufactured
goods http://megaprojects.uwo.ca.
Joy Parr, one of Canada’s premier historians,
tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past when
state-driven megaprojects and regulatory and environmental changes
forced people to cope with radical transformations in their work and
home environments. The construction of dams, chemical plants, nuclear
reactors, and military training grounds; new patterns in seasonal rains;
and developments in animal husbandry altered the daily lives of ordinary
people and essentially disrupted their embodied understandings of the
world. Familiar worlds were transformed so thoroughly that residents no
longer knew the place where they lived or, by implication, who they
were.
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 Sensing
Changes and the conjoint website at
http://megaprojects.uwo.ca,
which features creative, analytical works that further deepen the book’s
interpretations, make a key contribution to environmental history and
the emerging field of sensory history. This study offers a timely and
prescient perspective on how humans make sense of the world in the face
of rapid environmental, technological, and social change.
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