Joy Parr

Professor and Canada Research Chair

Research Interests

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.
 

Publications (past 7 years)

Refereed Journals

Parr, J., Van Horssen, J. and van der Veen, J. 2009 'The Practice of History Shared across Differences: Needs, Technologies, and Ways of Knowing in the Megaprojects New Media Project' Journal of Canadian Studies 43(1): 35-58

Parr, J.  2006 'Smells Like?:  Sources of uncertainty in the history of the Great Lake environment' Environmental History 11(2): 269-300

Parr, J.  2006 'Working knowledge of the insensible: an embodied history of radiation protection in Canadian Nuclear Power Stations, 1962-92' Comparative Studies in Society and History 48(4): 820-851

Parr, J. 2005 'Local water diversely known: Walkerton, Ontario 2000 and after' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23(2): 251-271

Parr, J. 2005 'Industrializing the household: Ruth Schwartz Cowan's More Work for Mother' Technology and Culture 46(3): 604-613

Parr, J. 2004 'Lostscapes: Found sources in search of a fitting representation' Journal of the Association for History and Computing 7(1)

Chapters in Books

Parr, J. (forthcoming) 'Our Bodies and Our Histories of Technology and the Environment’ in The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History ed S. Cutcliffe and M. Reuss (University of Virginia Press)

Parr, J. 2003 'Economics and homes' in Gender and Technology: A reader ed N. Lerma, R. Oldenziel and A. Mohun (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore) 329-358

Books

Parr, J. 2009 Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments and the Everyday 1953-2003 (UBC Press)

Janovicek, N., Parr, J. eds 2003 Histories of Canadian Children and Youth (Oxford University Press: Don Mills, ON)

Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

CONTENTS

• Research Interests
• Publications