Geography 9322, Environment and Sustainability 9595, History 9811
Winter Session January to April, 2010
Global Technologies and Local Knowledge
A course examining the frictions of going global: 1) how technologies embed the resource endowments, labour and managerial practices, culture and politics of their time and place of origin, 2) when exported where the local knowledge and best practice amongst users, policy makers and entrepreneurs differ, 3) and what environmental, political and economic implications attend such encounters. We proceed through theory and case studies, concluding with a series of workshop presentations. This course has been of interest to geographers, historians and those following courses in environment and sustainability.
We will consider scientific epistemologies and technologies as 'bespoke' for specific contexts, amongst those contexts environmental endowments and vulnerabilities thus effacing or over-riding these features of the places to which they are exported. We will also examine recent critiques of these misfits as over riding/speaking 'local knowledge'.
Course Requirements and Evaluation
Time: Tuesdays 5:30-8:30
Place: Plevna Room SSC 2322E
Instructor: Joy Parr SSC 2432
E-mail: jparr@uwo.ca
Web sites: Joy Parr and Megaprojects Study
Photos on this web page taken by Joy Parr and Jean Spicer and are reproduced here with permission.