Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
A Geography of Horse-Riding: The Spacing of Affect, Emotion and (Dis)Ability Identity Through Horse-Human Encounters

A Geography of Horse-Riding: The Spacing of Affect, Emotion and (Dis)Ability Identity Through Horse-Human Encounters

Nosworthy, Cheryl

Hardcover

General SociologyHorses

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1443843350
ISBN13: 9781443843355
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: Mar 6 2013
Pages: 265
Language: English
This book presents an in-depth, qualitative exploration of the practice of horse-riding by disabled and non-disabled riders and their horses. Situated as part of an affective turn within human geography, creative and original use is made of poststructuralist theory to bring together animal studies and disability studies in order to decentre the human as we think about the social. Eighteen months of multi-sited performance ethnography on the hoof were conducted with riders recruited from local riding schools, an internet forum and three Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) groups. The study employed various methods, including diary-keeping, participant observation and video-recording of riding activities, in order to capture moments of horse-human relating. Through these methods, the embodied expressions of horses are taken seriously as demonstrative of their individual thoughts and intentions.

Also in

General Sociology

View All