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Talking about Horses: Control and Freedom in the World of "Natural Horsemanship"

Lynda Birke

Society and Animals 16 (2):107-126 (2008)

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Herds and Hierarchies: Class, Nature, and the Social Construction of Horses in Equestrian Culture.Kendra Coulter - 2014 - Society and Animals 22 (2):135-152.details This study centers on equestrian show culture in Ontario, Canada, and examines how horses are entangled symbolically and materially in socially constructed hierarchies of value. After examining horse-show social relations and practices, the paper traces the connections among equestrian culture, class, and the social constructions of horses. Equestrian relations expose multiple hierarchical intersections of nature and culture within which both human-horse relations and horses are affected by class structures and identities. In equestrian culture, class affects relations within and across species, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Horse Play in the Canadian West: The Emergence of the Calgary Stampede as Contested Terrain.Brittany Gerber & Kevin Young - 2013 - Society and Animals 21 (6):523-545.details As one example of how modern Western societies are increasingly obliged to reconcile questions of civility and justice against common, indeed revered, practices that compromise nonhuman animals, this paper examines the recent history of public debate regarding the use of animals for public entertainment in the Canadian West. Using media-based public dialogue regarding the annual Calgary Stampede as a case study and couching the high-risk use of horses in the sociological language of “sports-related violence,” the paper explores the various arguments (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Riding in the Skin of the Movement: An Agogic Practice.Stephen J. Smith - 2015 - Phenomenology and Practice 9 (1):41-54.details The art of riding imagines the human-horse relation in the image of the centaur. In synchronous motions, riding is a dance of sorts, contact of bodies in the skin of the moment. Yet always there is the possibility of fussing, flailing, falling and failing in moments of resistance, evasion and contrariness. Through phenomenological reflection on such moments, riding can be understood not simply in terms of its difficulties of centaurian mastery, but in terms of the postural, positional, gestural, expressive nuances (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Communication as a Solution to Conflict: Fundamental Similarities in Divergent Methods of Horse Training.Nikki Savvides - 2012 - Society and Animals 20 (1):75-90.details This paper examines the ways in which two methods of horse training generally considered divergent approach the concepts of partnership and conflict in human-horse relations. It focuses on finding similarities between the methods, both of which, it is argued, demonstrate the significance of communication in improving human-horse relations. Using interview material, the paper analyzes the practices and beliefs of individuals involved in natural horsemanship. In doing so the paper shows that communication between human and horse works to promote relations between (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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