In pursuit of meaningful human–horse relations

Schuurman, Nora; Franklin, Alex

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“…To initiate broader discussions about the good life from an interspecies perspective, we suggest that horses are of particular interest and relevance because of the longevity, intensity and significance of our shared relations (Birke et al., 2010; Schuurman & Franklin, 2016). In the UK, for example, they are our ‘partners’ in sport‐ and leisure‐based activities, and we, therefore, recognise horses as companions and worry about their wellbeing (Hockenhull & Furtado, 2021).…”

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“…Horses, for example, were fundamental to the socioeconomic development of Europe and elsewhere, helping transport people, goods and armies over long distances (Raulff, 2017). Now engaged mainly in the sport and leisure sectors, horses remain peculiarly bonded to us through the act of riding (Adelman & Thompson, 2017; Dashper, 2017) and processes of care provision (Birke et al., 2010; Schuurman & Franklin, 2016).…”

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Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

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Notions of the good life are often strongly linked to rurality. Existing conceptualisations tend towards an anthropocentric and individualised approach centred on personal wealth, status and happiness. In contrast, this article reframes the good life as an interspecies endeavur, which embeds people and animals alike by recognising their interdependent relational configurations within the wider natural-social environment. Specifically, we bring insights from the concept of buen vivir to bear on research among people who live alongside their horses in rural areas of the UK. We find that horses enhance, enable and mediate people's understanding and experience of the rural good life. In contrast to popular and scholarly conceptions that emphasise privilege and leisure, the interspecies iteration that emerges is characterised by hard work, collaboration and purposeful active learning. This has profound implications in turn for our understanding and experience of sustainability, as these interspecies relations lead participants intoThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

2022

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How meeting with the horse may contribute to a balanced life: Co-constructing a project-based leisure

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2023

Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure

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More-than-Human Leadership?

Huopalainen

2022

The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies

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How can the relational, embodied, and affective dynamics between horses and humans enrich, develop, or even change common understandings about leadership? Moving away from hu-man-centred conceptualizations of leadership towards radically novel, species-inclusive, and posthuman terrains, this chapter investigates the co-creation of leadership in horse–human relationships within Finnish equestrian culture. Theoretically, it combines insights from the literature on relational leadership and horse–human relationships to develop micro-level understandings of how multispecies relationships—and what the author calls expressions of more-than-human leadership—emerge and co-become in situated practices. Drawing on ethnographic material on horse–human interactions (as in groundwork and in riding), combined with interviews with professional riding instructors, the chapter analyses how horses and humans co-construct leadership relationally. Further, it develops novel, care-based understandings of leadership through sensing, relating to, and learning from horses. By seeking to shift ordinary knowing positions and power distributions through care and respect for the horse, this chapter opens up novel possibilities for co-creating leadership across species boundaries and for conceptualizing and researching leadership differently.

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In pursuit of meaningful human–horse relations

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Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

How meeting with the horse may contribute to a balanced life: Co-constructing a project-based leisure

More-than-Human Leadership?

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