Le patrimoine immatériel de l’équitation islandaise : l'expérience des touristes domestiques à cheval

Helgadóttir, Guðrún; Sigurðardóttir, Ingibjörg

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“…Participant observation is particularly useful when the phenomenon studied is visible and based on human interactions (Jorgensen, 1989). Empirically speaking, participant observation -either alone or in conjunction with other methods-has proved to be significantly useful in the study of interspecies relationships, particularly between humans and horses in tourism, sport, and leisure (Dashper, 2014(Dashper, , 2017Helgadóttir & Sigurðardóttir, 2021;Monterrubio & Pérez, 2021;Notzke, 2019) and their association with gender (Adelman, 2015;Adelman & Knijnik, 2013;Butler, 2013;Dashper, 2012;de Haan et al, 2016;Fernando Rojo, 2009).…”

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Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico

2022

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Most research on equestrian sports, including horseracing, has been developed in contexts in the Global North. This has led to a narrow perspective of what horseracing is and means in different historical and sociocultural contexts. This paper extends this reach through considering informal horseracing events in Mexico. Based on understanding gender as a 'doing' rather than a 'being', and as an integral part of all social practices and identities, the races are examined as leisure events that function as sites through which masculinities are performed and (re)produced. Drawing on an ethnographic study, the horseracing events are identified as spaces in which male-male interactions provide opportunity for men to perform culturally hegemonic norms of masculinity, against a backdrop of shifting economic and social practices that are affecting wider gender relations in Mexico. Although women also have a presence in horseracing, they play a marginal role within the events which celebrate and foreground male homosociality. Masculinities are performed and validated predominantly through male-male interactions and expressions of male dominance over the horses. This paper thus illustrates the importance of gender to understanding different leisure practices and the significance of social and cultural context to examining leisure generally and equestrian sports specifically.

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Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico

2022

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Le patrimoine immatériel de l’équitation islandaise : l'expérience des touristes domestiques à cheval

Abstract: Le patrimoine immatériel de l'équitation islandaise : l'expérience des touristes domestiques à cheval Guðrún Helgadóttir and Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir Intangible heritage of Icelandic equestrianism: the experience of domestic ho...

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Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico

Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico

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