Full Description
This original and insightful book explores how horses can be considered as social actors within shared interspecies networks. It examines what we know about how horses understand us and how we perceive them, as well as the implications of actively recognising other animals as actors within shared social lives. This book explores how interspecies relationships work, using a variety of examples to demonstrate how horses and people build social lives. Considering horses as social actors presents new possibilities for improving the quality of animal lives, the human condition and human-horse relations.
Contents
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
Part One: Introducing Horse-Human Relationships
Chapter One: Equine co-travellers
Chapter Two: Animals as social actors: Relations, action and agency
Part Two: Thinking Horses: How Humans Set the Context
Chapter Three: Natural Horses
Chapter Four: Symbolic Horses
Chapter Five: Equestrian Cultures
Part Three: Meeting Horses: Moving Together
Chapter Six: Choreographies
Chapter Seven: Moving with Motive
Part Four: Acting on Equine Agency
Chapter Eight: Agency Matters
Chapter Nine: Agency, Action and Horses: Unstable Relations
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