Eco‐National Discourse and the Case of the Finnhorse

Schuurman, Nora; Nyman, Jopi

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“…However, this is not the only way in which nation-states are symbolized or made meaningful in animal terms, and additional cases include declarations of particular animals as "national" and the identification of nation-states with particular animal-related activities. Examples of the former include the inventions of the "German Shepherd" (Skabelund 2008) and the "Finnhorse" (Schuurman and Nyman 2014), while examples of the latter can be how Norway is commonly depicted as a "fishing nation" and the identification of Spain with bullfighting. Furthermore, the relationship to animals has in some cases been considered central to the construction of whole national communities, with Australia (Franklin 2006) and Japan (Pflugfelder and Walker 2005) being two studied cases in point.…”

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Engaging the “Animal Question” in International Relations

Fougner

2020

International Studies Review

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By raising the “animal question” in International Relations (IR), this essay seeks to contribute not only to put animals and human–animal relations on the IR agenda, but also to move the field in a less anthropocentric and non-speciesist direction. More specifically, the essay does three things: First, it makes animals visible within some of the main empirical realms conventionally treated as the subject matter of IR. Second, it reflects on IR's neglect of animals and human–animal relations in relation to both how IR has been constituted as a field and the broader socio-cultural context in which it is embedded. Third, it explores various ways in which IR scholars can start incorporating and take animals and human–animal relations seriously in studies on international relations.

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Section: Animals In International Relationsmentioning

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Engaging the “Animal Question” in International Relations

Fougner

2020

International Studies Review

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“…Inseparable from human history and culture, horses in particular provide a starting point that is both familiar and provocative (Schuurman & Nyman, 2014). The act of riding opens up distinctive forms of interspecies communication and partnership, enabling people and horses to connect physically and share spatial, geographical and emotional trajectories (Dashper, 2016).…”

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Agency as Interspecies, Collective and Embedded Endeavour: Ponies and People in Northern England 1916–1950

Wadham¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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Animals are increasingly acknowledged as historical agents. There are calls for more critical approaches that explore how this agency-often shared with humans-is embedded within wider relations of power. This paper responds by employing Critical Theory, particularly the ideas of Jurgen Habermas, to explore how interspecies agency is shaped and constrained by its broader socioeconomic context. Empirical illustrations are drawn from the experiences of Dales ponies and people in the early twentieth century, who found themselves navigating the growing commodification of their shared lifeworld. The findings suggest the outcome of this process of "colonisation" was not inevitable. Rather, just as the demise of the ponies seemed unstoppable, their shared communicative relations re-emerged powerfully during the harsh winter of 1947. The paper asks what this means for our understanding of the apparently irrevocable decline of horsepower and how we might better understand horses' own experiences of such events and processes.

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“… We used Academic Search Premier to search Rural Sociology and Sociologia Ruralis , for abstracts with the keyword music. Sociologia Ruralis had two hits: Munters' () article on Max Weber as a rural sociologist, with a brief mention of music; and Schuurman and Nyman's () discussion of the Finnhorse as a symbol of nationality, including musical references. Rural Sociology had one hit: Eyck's () article on Cajun cuisine, again with a brief mention of music, but not a centrepiece of study.…”

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Affect and Taste: Bourdieu, Traditional Music, and the Performance of Possibilities

Ashwood

Bell

2016

Sociologia Ruralis

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In his famous Distinction, Bourdieu set forth musical and artistic taste as reflections of class positions developed early in life. With classical music as an explanatory tool, Bourdieu argued that cultural capital becomes deeply embodied and difficult to change. In temperance of Bourdieu's use of class, we suggest an affective theory of taste through the case of traditional music, based on a performance of possibilities inspired by our experiences in two pubs, one English and one Irish.Commonly played in pubs, traditional music can draw on rural lore to share its message with singing patrons of mixed class backgrounds. We use traditional music to argue that place shapes diverse social ties at all levels of economics, education, and age. We do not dispute that class powerfully shapes taste. But through what we term the joy of transcendence-formed through distinct and relative experiences, bonds, and friendships, enacted through place-participants can find pleasure in opening the cages of class and connecting across difference. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. 2 Bourdieu at Tig CoiliWe were, would you say, a little tipsy. We had been in and out of pubs all afternoon, spending our Sunday in our own religious way. Bourdieu had been busy too, writing manuscripts, dissecting classes, and unearthing dominations. At long last, he had a free moment to walk with us down the streets of Galway.As we walked, Bourdieu fit in a few lessons. An elderly lad with rumpled clothes wavered unsteadily on Shop Street. We knew Pat, and often he looked dishevelled. Today he was muttering, staring downward, shuffling his feet as he wandered along. Nearby, a neatly dressed man in a pinstriped suit passed him out at a brisk pace, not very leisurely for a Sunday. Bourdieu noted the passing humanity and remarked, Style is thus foregrounded, and the most typically bourgeois deportment can be recognized by a certain breadth of gesture, posture and gait, which manifests by the amount of physical space that is occupied, the place occupied in social space; and above all by a restrained measured, self-assured tempo. This slow pace, contrasting with working-class haste or petit-bourgeois eagerness, also characterizes bourgeois speech, where it similarly asserts awareness of the right to take one's time -and other people's (1984: 218).But who was Bourdieu describing, we puzzled? Pat's walk certainly was not restrained, nor self-assured, but it was indeed slow. The tidily dressed man commanded the social space of the sidewalk, but his pace was quick. Bourdieu had few other details to share, but we did. When we first started frequenting our now favourite pub Tig Coili during the height of the "Celtic Tiger" period of Ireland's economy, we inquired about the wandering man. Galway was then the fastest growing city of its size in Europe, and Pat, we learned, owned a nearby farm valued at over €2 million. Pat had much to celebrate, apparently, for he chose to drink often, sleeping mostly on the streets, while pub Page 2 of 34 S...

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Eco‐National Discourse and the Case of the Finnhorse

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Engaging the “Animal Question” in International Relations

Engaging the “Animal Question” in International Relations

Agency as Interspecies, Collective and Embedded Endeavour: Ponies and People in Northern England 1916–1950

Affect and Taste: Bourdieu, Traditional Music, and the Performance of Possibilities

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