Equine Cultures In Transition

Author : Jonna Bornemark,Petra Andersson,Ulla Ekström von Essen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351002455

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Equine Cultures in Transition by Jonna Bornemark,Petra Andersson,Ulla Ekström von Essen Pdf

Societal views on animals are rapidly changing and have become more diversified: can we use them for our own pleasure, and how should we understand animal agency? These questions, asked both in theoretical discourses and different practices, are also relevant for our understanding of horses and the human–horse relation. Equine Cultures in Transition stands as the first volume to bring together ethical questions of the new field of human–horse studies. For instance: what sort of ethics should be developed in relation to the horse today: an egalitarian ethics or an ethics that builds upon asymmetrical relations? How can we understand the horse as a social actor and as someone who, just like the human being, becomes through interspecies relations? Through which methods can we give the horse a stronger voice and better understand its becoming? These questions are not addressed from a medical or ethological perspective focused on natural behaviour, but rather from human acknowledgement of the horse as a sensing, feeling, acting, and relational being; and as a part of interspecies societies and relations. Providing an introductory yet theoretically advanced and broad view of the field of post humanism and human animal studies, Equine Cultures in Transition will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as human–animal studies, political sociology, animals and ethics, animal behaviour, anthropology, and sociology of culture. It may also appeal to riders and other practitioners within different horse traditions.

Author : Kristen Guest,Monica Mattfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226589510

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Equestrian Cultures by Kristen Guest,Monica Mattfeld Pdf

As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities—from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and therapy—and have figured heavily in the history of natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Most accounts of the equine-human relationship, however, fail to address the last few centuries of Western history, focusing instead on pre-1700 interactions. Equestrian Cultures fills in the gap, telling the story of how prominently horses continue to figure in our lives, up to the present day. ​ Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld place the modern period front and center in this collection, illuminating the largely untold story of how the horse has responded to the accelerated pace of modernity. The book’s contributors explore equine cultures across the globe, drawing from numerous interdisciplinary sources to show how horses have unexpectedly influenced such distinctively modern fields as photography, anthropology, and feminist theory. Equestrian Cultures boldly steps forward to redefine our view of the most recent developments in our long history of equine partnership and sets the course for future examinations of this still-strong bond.

Author : Miriam Adelman,Kirrilly Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319558868

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Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts by Miriam Adelman,Kirrilly Thompson Pdf

This edited volume demonstrates the broader socio-cultural context for individual human-horse relations and equestrian practices by documenting the international value of equines; socially, culturally, as subjects of academic study and as drivers of public policy. It broadens our understanding of the importance of horses to humans by providing case studies from an unprecedented diversity of cultures. The volume is grounded in the contention that the changing status of equines reveals - and moves us to reflect on - important material and symbolic societal transformations ushered in by (post)modernity which affect local and global contexts alike. Through a detailed consideration of the social relations and cultural dimensions of equestrian practices across several continents, this volume provides readers with an understanding of the ways in which interactions with horses provide global connectivity with localized identities, and vice versa. It further discusses new frontiers in the research on and practice of equestrianism, framed against global megatrends and local micro-trends.

Author : Erika Cudworth,Ruth E. McKie,Di Turgoose
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000829952

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Feminist Animal Studies by Erika Cudworth,Ruth E. McKie,Di Turgoose Pdf

This book explores human–animal relations and species-based domination at the intersection of feminism with critique of our domination and exploitation of nonhuman animals, in conversation with power dynamics around coloniality and race, class, sexuality and embodiment. The collection demonstrates the continued vital importance of feminism – conceptually and theoretically, methodologically and politically – to the development of animal studies. Feminism has made an incisive critique of the ways in which gender and other intersecting differences and inequalities are constitutive of our destructive, exploitative and often violent relationships with nonhuman worlds. An international group of scholars and activists showcase new work, revisiting and extending established debates while negotiating new paths. Amongst the issues addressed in this collection will be questions of animal being and animal rights, caring relations, the relationships between activism and theory, interspecies sexual violence, tension in the animal defence movement around body politics, gender politics and professionalisation, different spaces of gender and animal relations from social media to sexology, safe spaces and sanctuaries, spaces of home – both in times of ‘business-as-usual’ and in times of lockdown. This multidisciplinary volume will be essential reading to students and academics working in the fields of cultural studies, criminology, geography, history, law, philosophy, politics and sociology, with interest in gender, environmentalism and animal studies. The editors work in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and share interests in gender and species violence, environmental harms, social justice matters and intersected inequalities.

Author : Lynda Birke,Kirrilly Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317381013

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(Un)Stable Relations: Horses, Humans and Social Agency by Lynda Birke,Kirrilly Thompson Pdf

This original and insightful book explores how horses can be considered as social actors within shared interspecies networks. It examines what we know about how horses understand us and how we perceive them, as well as the implications of actively recognising other animals as actors within shared social lives. This book explores how interspecies relationships work, using a variety of examples to demonstrate how horses and people build social lives. Considering horses as social actors presents new possibilities for improving the quality of animal lives, the human condition and human-horse relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Influence of the Horse in the Development of Plans Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosalie Jones McVey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000853629

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Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing by Rosalie Jones McVey Pdf

This book explores how equestrians are highly invested in the idea of profound connection between horse and human and focuses on the ethical problem of knowing horses. In describing how ‘true’ connection with horses matters, Rosalie Jones McVey investigates what sort of thing comes to count as a ‘good relationship’ and how riders work to get there. Drawing on fieldwork in the British horse world, she illuminates the ways in which equestrian culture instils the idea that horse people should know their horses better. Using horsemanship as one exemplary instance where ‘truth’ holds ethical traction, the book demonstrates the importance of epistemology in late modern ethical life. It also raises the question of whether, and how, the concept of truth should matter to multispecies ethnographers in their ethnographic representations of animals.

Author : Timothy Dawson,Anastasija Ropa
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9786156405623

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Historical Practices in Horsemanship and Equestrian Sports by Timothy Dawson,Anastasija Ropa Pdf

New things are forgotten old things - this rediscovery of the past is especially important in horsemanship and equestrian sports. Despite advances in sciences and technology, the physiologies and psychologies of the two principal agents, the equid and the human, have undergone relatively few changes since horse domestication. The studies collected in this volume outline such essential and recurring challenges in equestrianism as gender issues, equine identification, the use of hyperflexion and groundwork in training, as well as many others, from prehistory to this day.

Author : Neil Ward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781003824183

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Horses, Power and Place by Neil Ward Pdf

Horses, Power and Place explores the evolution of humanity’s relationship with horses, from early domestication through to the use of the horse as a draught animal, an agricultural, industrial and military asset, and an animal of sport and leisure. Taking an historical approach, and using Britain as a case study, this is the first book-length exploration of the horse in the more-than-human geography of a nation. It traces the role and implications of horse-based mobility for the evolution of settlement structure, urban morphology and the rural landscape. It maps the growth and various uses of horses to the point of ‘peak horse’ in the early twentieth century before considering the contemporary place of the horse in twenty-first century economy and society. It assesses the role of the horse in the formation of places within Britain and in the formation of the nation. The book reflects on the implications of this historical and contemporary equine geography for animal geographies and animal studies. It argues for the study of animals in general in how places are made, not just by humans. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of animal geography and animal studies more widely.

Author : Rena Maguire,Anastasija Ropa
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9786158182164

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The Liminal Horse by Rena Maguire,Anastasija Ropa Pdf

The historical horse is at once material and abstract, as is the notion of the border. Borders and frontiers are not only markers delineating geographical spaces but also mental constructs: there are borders between order and disorder, between what is permitted and what is prohibited. Boundaries and liminal spaces also exist in the material, economic, political, moral, legal and religious spheres. In this volume, the contributing authors explore the theme of the liminality of the horse in all of these historical arenas, asking how does one reconcile the very different roles played by the horse in human history?

Author : Katherine Dashper,Guðrún Helgadóttir,Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir
Publisher : CABI
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781789242751

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Humans, Horses and Events Management by Katherine Dashper,Guðrún Helgadóttir,Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir Pdf

Horses are perhaps the most common non-human animal to feature in planned events, but although there is considerable research on equestrian sport, there is virtually none on equestrian events. This book begins to address this gap, using the National Championships of the Icelandic Horse as an extended case study to explain in depth the process of managing an event, as well as the larger theoretical implications of events management. Drawing on diverse viewpoints and theoretical perspectives, the book draws wider comparisons to connect events management to larger themes in the social sciences, such as human-animal relations; nationalism; place branding; event impacts; event experience; and inclusion and exclusion. The book is a contribution to two fields. In relation to human-animal studies, it focuses on how the Icelandic horse breed is marketed and celebrated through top-tier competition; whereas from an events management perspective, it considers the role of the event in community building, the practical and theoretical aspects of running a sustainable equestrian event, and the issues that arise in multispecies event contexts.

Author : Gala Argent,Jeannette Vaught
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004514935

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The Relational Horse by Gala Argent,Jeannette Vaught Pdf

The Relational Horse explores the possibilities of including the horse’s perspective into the study of human-horse relationships. Case studies from across a range of time periods, activities, and disciplines provide fresh ways to understand horses, themselves, in relationships with humans.

Author : Jonathan G. Merritt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781498556279

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Regulating Sport for the Non-Human Athlete by Jonathan G. Merritt Pdf

This book evaluates the status quo of integrity management within sports that involve horses worldwide. Sports governing bodies and international sports federations are very powerful organisations within their sphere and the governance of these sports has created a hegemony which does not necessarily serve the interests of those engaged in sport, rather those who ‘rule’ sport. This book investigates the question of whether cheating is discouraged and fair play rewarded, both to an adequate degree.

Author : Emily Stone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000756050

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Cat People: Human–Cat Interrelatedness in the Cat Fancy by Emily Stone Pdf

This book examines the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats. Based on multispecies ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in the United Kingdom, it explores the process and performance of exhibiting cats at shows, the breeding practices and discourses integral to the creation of pedigree breeds, and the relations that these practices generate between human guardians, the pedigree cat population, and non-pedigree cats. Through observation with cat fanciers and their interactions with their cats, the author investigates the social dynamics and relationships that form within the fancy, considering the interconnections between biopower and eugenics in pedigree breeding, the practices of pet keeping and the complexities of more-than-human care, and the implications of involvement for the cats themselves. As such, Cat People: Human–Cat Interrelatedness in the Cat Fancy will appeal to scholars from across the social sciences and humanities interested in human–animal interactions, multispecies leisure, anthrozoology, and more-than-human care.

Author : Tomaž Grušovnik,Reingard Spannring,Karen Lykke Syse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781793610478

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Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial by Tomaž Grušovnik,Reingard Spannring,Karen Lykke Syse Pdf

The staggering rate of environmental pollution and animal abuse despite constant efforts to educate the public and raise awareness challenges the prevailing belief that the absence of serious action is a consequence of a poorly informed public. In recent decades alternative explanations of social and political inaction have emerged, including denialism. Challenging the information-deficit model, denialism proposes that people actively avoid unpleasant information that threatens their established worldviews, lifestyles, and identities. Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people avoid awareness of climate change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal industrial complex. The contributors examine the theory of denialism in regards to environmental pollution and animal abuse through a range of disciplines, including social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural history and law.