Equine Cultures in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Equine Cultures in Transition write by Jonna Bornemark. This book was released on 2019-01-10. Equine Cultures in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Feminist Animal Studies
Feminist Animal Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Animal Studies write by Erika Cudworth. This book was released on 2022-12-30. Feminist Animal Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
(Un)Stable Relations: Horses, Humans and Social Agency
(Un)Stable Relations: Horses, Humans and Social Agency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook (Un)Stable Relations: Horses, Humans and Social Agency write by Lynda Birke. This book was released on 2017-12-12. (Un)Stable Relations: Horses, Humans and Social Agency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing
Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing write by Rosalie Jones McVey. This book was released on 2023-03-31. Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Historical Practices in Horsemanship and Equestrian Sports
Historical Practices in Horsemanship and Equestrian Sports - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Practices in Horsemanship and Equestrian Sports write by Timothy Dawson. This book was released on 2022-11-01. Historical Practices in Horsemanship and Equestrian Sports available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
