Nicolas Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolas Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Sensory Studies Manifesto
Deindustrializing Montreal
Introduction
Railways and the Urban Soundscape
Recent work on the history of railways has focused on the ways in which they changed the experience of space. Studies of urban settings have examined the role of railway tracks in delineating and reaffirming identities of class and ethnicity; they have also looked at the housing and neighborhoods that grew up around railway yards. This article contributes to the literature on railways and urban space by exploring the meanings of train sounds, in …
Philippe Girard. Leonard Cohen
Constitutional Rights at the Kitchen Table
In a recent landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that the underfunding of British Columbia’s Conseil scolaire francophone constitutes a breach of Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees in matters of minority-language education. While this marked the end of a decade of judicial proceedings, this article situates the decision in a broader historical context by examining the struggle to develop French-language educational prog…
Saving the steamship
In the late 1990s, a sustained outreach campaign saved the former headquarters of Belgium’s national public broadcaster from demolition. This article analyses the heritage designation for the Maison de la Radio in the context of the emotional value attributed to it at different moments of its existence. In the 1950s and 1960s, Brussels became synonymous with widespread urban renewal practices, and the radio building’s preservation has come to sym…
American Illuminations
Reviewed by: American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800–1920 by David E. Nye Nicolas Kenny (bio) American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800–1920. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. 256. Hardcover $30. David Nye is widely regarded as a preeminent historian of technology in the United States, having published numerous and frequently cited studies on electrification, blackouts, and the technological sublime. In this latest addi…
City Glow
Proliferating streetlights generated complex emotional responses in modern cities. Drawing on recent scholarship in the history of the emotions, this article argues that examining the feelings of pride and prestige associated with technological innovation, but also of anger and fear when light was lacking or unpleasant, reveals the intimate nature of urban dwellers’ relationship to their environment. Street lighting is often studied as part the n…
Forgotten pasts and contested futures in Vancouver
Vancouver has long enjoyed a widespread reputation as a young and forward-looking city, where the quality of life is high and the possibilities for prosperity and enjoyment are endless. This image has been crafted by generations of municipal politicians, real estate developers, and tourism boosters who present Vancouver as a city without a history, ever prepared to seize the opportunities of a globalised consumer economy. But as municipal officia…
Sensory Overload' in Industrial Chicago
In much of the western world, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a time of unprecedented transformation. Under the impulse of seemingly unbridled industrialization, urban areas
From body and home to nation and world
The vast transformations that shaped western cities at the turn of the twentieth century were the product of global processes and interactions. Drawing on the cases of Montreal and Brussels, this article argues that underlying these broad dynamics were questions and preoccupations pertaining to more localized and personal scales of the body and the home. Concentrating on the discourses that circulated in these distinct, yet analogous cities, the …
Forgotten pasts and contested futures in Vancouver
Vancouver has long enjoyed a widespread reputation as a young and forward-looking city, where the quality of life is high and the possibilities for prosperity and enjoyment are endless. This image has been crafted by generations of municipal politicians, real estate developers, and tourism boosters who present Vancouver as a city without a history, ever prepared to seize the opportunities of a globalised consumer economy. But as municipal officia…
Saving the steamship
In the late 1990s, a sustained outreach campaign saved the former headquarters of Belgium’s national public broadcaster from demolition. This article analyses the heritage designation for the Maison de la Radio in the context of the emotional value attributed to it at different moments of its existence. In the 1950s and 1960s, Brussels became synonymous with widespread urban renewal practices, and the radio building’s preservation has come to sym…
From body and home to nation and world
The vast transformations that shaped western cities at the turn of the twentieth century were the product of global processes and interactions. Drawing on the cases of Montreal and Brussels, this article argues that underlying these broad dynamics were questions and preoccupations pertaining to more localized and personal scales of the body and the home. Concentrating on the discourses that circulated in these distinct, yet analogous cities, the …
From body and home to nation and world
The vast transformations that shaped western cities at the turn of the twentieth century were the product of global processes and interactions. Drawing on the cases of Montreal and Brussels, this article argues that underlying these broad dynamics were questions and preoccupations pertaining to more localized and personal scales of the body and the home. Concentrating on the discourses that circulated in these distinct, yet analogous cities, the …
Forgotten pasts and contested futures in Vancouver
Vancouver has long enjoyed a widespread reputation as a young and forward-looking city, where the quality of life is high and the possibilities for prosperity and enjoyment are endless. This image has been crafted by generations of municipal politicians, real estate developers, and tourism boosters who present Vancouver as a city without a history, ever prepared to seize the opportunities of a globalised consumer economy. But as municipal officia…
Sensory Overload' in Industrial Chicago
In much of the western world, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a time of unprecedented transformation. Under the impulse of seemingly unbridled industrialization, urban areas
City Glow
Proliferating streetlights generated complex emotional responses in modern cities. Drawing on recent scholarship in the history of the emotions, this article argues that examining the feelings of pride and prestige associated with technological innovation, but also of anger and fear when light was lacking or unpleasant, reveals the intimate nature of urban dwellers’ relationship to their environment. Street lighting is often studied as part the n…
American Illuminations
Reviewed by: American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800–1920 by David E. Nye Nicolas Kenny (bio) American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800–1920. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. 256. Hardcover $30. David Nye is widely regarded as a preeminent historian of technology in the United States, having published numerous and frequently cited studies on electrification, blackouts, and the technological sublime. In this latest addi…
Constitutional Rights at the Kitchen Table
In a recent landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that the underfunding of British Columbia’s Conseil scolaire francophone constitutes a breach of Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees in matters of minority-language education. While this marked the end of a decade of judicial proceedings, this article situates the decision in a broader historical context by examining the struggle to develop French-language educational prog…
Saving the steamship
In the late 1990s, a sustained outreach campaign saved the former headquarters of Belgium’s national public broadcaster from demolition. This article analyses the heritage designation for the Maison de la Radio in the context of the emotional value attributed to it at different moments of its existence. In the 1950s and 1960s, Brussels became synonymous with widespread urban renewal practices, and the radio building’s preservation has come to sym…
Introduction
Railways and the Urban Soundscape
Recent work on the history of railways has focused on the ways in which they changed the experience of space. Studies of urban settings have examined the role of railway tracks in delineating and reaffirming identities of class and ethnicity; they have also looked at the housing and neighborhoods that grew up around railway yards. This article contributes to the literature on railways and urban space by exploring the meanings of train sounds, in …
Philippe Girard. Leonard Cohen
The Sensory Studies Manifesto
Deindustrializing Montreal
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)