UID:
almahu_9949384194902882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781351002455
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1351002457
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9781351002479
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1351002473
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9781351002462
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1351002465
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9781351002448
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1351002449
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Content:
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.
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Subjectivity and ethical questions in an equestrian world in transformation; Theoretical background; Horse-human studies in humanity and social sciences; Methods in horse-human studies in humanities and social science; Chapters; Horses at work; Leadership, power, and training methodology; Problematic practices?; Negotiations in contemporary dressage; Horse keeping; References; Part I: Horses at work; Chapter 1: Horses' labour and work-lives: New intellectual and ethical directions; Introduction
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An intellectual lead changeHorses' labour processes; Horses' work-lives; Towards interspecies solidarity and humane jobs with and for horses; Note; References; Chapter 2: Working cowhorses in multispecies encounters; Introduction; Yearly rhythms of a cowhorse; The work cowhorses do; Cowboy code of conduct in relation to horses; The practicalities of implementing the cowboy code of conduct; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Who is the horse? Horse assisted psychotherapy as a possibility for understanding horses; Introduction; Background; Equine assisted psychotherapy
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Can we learn about horses from equine assisted psychotherapyWhat are the horses actually doing in psychotherapy?; Ethics of equine assisted psychotherapy; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Martha Nussbaum's capability approach and equine assisted therapy: An analysis for both humans and horses; Introduction; Equine assisted activities or therapy; The role of the horse; Nussbaum's capability approach; Life; Bodily health; Bodily integrity; Senses, imagination, and thought; Emotions; Practical reason; Affiliation; Other species; Play; Control over one's environment; Discussion; Conclusion
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AcknowledgementReferences; Part II: Leadership, power, and training methodology; Chapter 5: Put the horse in place: On communicative practices in horse-human relationships; Introduction; Expert perspectives on leadership; Perceptions of horses and good horsey humans; Horse natures and horse handling cultures; Re-doings; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Power, ethics, and animal rights; Introduction; Animal rights, training, and citizenship; Horses as others; Ethics and the ends of equestrian activity; Notes; References
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Chapter 7: Between behaviourism, posthumanism, and animal rights theory: Negative and positive reinforcement in liberty dressageIntroduction; Theoretical discourses; Behaviourism; Posthumanism; Animal rights; Egalitarian and asymmetrical ethics; Practices; Natural horsemanship; The shift from natural horsemanship to liberty dressage; Positive and negative reinforcement; Interviews with liberty dressage trainers; Methodology; Results; Negative vs. positive reinforcement; Becoming together vs. the horse's autonomy; Mechanism vs. relationalism
Additional Edition:
Print version: Equine cultures in transition Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9781138549593 (hardback)
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781351002479.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351002479
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