Sensing Changes

Joy Parr is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk in the Geography Department at the University of Western Ontario.

• Foreword: "Now I am Ready to Tell How Bodies are Changed Into Different Bodies" / Graeme WynnThe Megaprojects New Media Series / Jon van der Veen1 Introduction – Embodied Histories2 Place and Citizenship – Woodlands, Meadows, and a Military Training Ground: The NATO Base at Gagetown3 Safety and Sight – Working Knowledge of the Insensible: Radiation Protection in Nuclear Power Plants, 1962-924 Movement and Sound – A Walking Village Remade: Iroquois and the St. Lawrence Seaway5 Time and Scale – A River Becomes a Reservoir: The Arrow Lakes and the Damming of the Columbia6 Smell and Risk – Uncertainty along a Great Lakes Shoreline: Hydrogen Sulphide and the Production of Heavy Water7 Taste and Expertise – Local Water Diversely Known: The E. coli Contamination in Walkerton 2000 and After8 Conclusion: Historically Specific BodiesNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

The New Media component of Sensing Changes is a wonderful illustration of how we can and should engage our students in multi-sensory ways and how we, as historians, must move beyond privileging the written word.- Lisa Rumiel, McMaster University (Left History, 15.1) Historian and geographer Joy Parr has written an extraordinary book…Sensing Changes will make important contributions to the field of sensory studies and that other readers, approaching their own topics in diverse locations and from various disciplinary backgrounds, will, like this reviewer, find edification and inspiration in the pages of this remarkable book. - Deborah Davis Jackson, Earlham College (Senses and Society, Vol 6, Issue 2)