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 wa…
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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 …
"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 …
Global governance now provides people with recourse for harm through International Grievance Mechanisms, such as the Independent Accountability Mechanisms of the Multilateral Development Banks. Yet little is known about how such mechanisms work. This Element examines how IGMs pr…
"MEKONG DREAMING is an ethnography of the changing relationship between the Mekong River and the residents of Ban Beuk, a small town on the border of Thailand and Laos. In recent years, the Greater Mekong Sub-region has undergone vast infrastructural development, ranging from th…
Introduction: Through a glass, darkly -- Naga and Garuda -- River beings -- Dwelling under distant suns -- River grew tired -- Human and inhuman.
"MEKONG DREAMING is an ethnography of the changing relationship between the Mekong River and the residents of Ban Beuk, a small town on the border of Thailand and Laos. In recent years, the Greater Mekong Sub-region has undergone vast infrastructural development, ranging from th…
"MEKONG DREAMING is an ethnography of the changing relationship between the Mekong River and the residents of Ban Beuk, a small town on the border of Thailand and Laos. In recent years, the Greater Mekong Sub-region has undergone vast infrastructural development, ranging from th…
"The book is a pioneering attempt to see exactly what difference economic valuation of environmental effects would have made to six actual, on-going, development projects, if it had been done at the time of appraisal. It combines theoretical rigour with applied economic skills, …