Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts

✍ Scribed by Miriam Adelman, Kirrilly Thompson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume demonstrates the broader socio-cultural context for individual human-horse relations and equestrian practices by documenting the international value of equines; socially, culturally, as subjects of academic study and as drivers of public policy. It broadens our understanding of the importance of horses to humans by providing case studies from an unprecedented diversity of cultures. The volume is grounded in the contention that the changing status of equines reveals - and moves us to reflect on - important material and symbolic societal transformations ushered in by (post)modernity which affect local and global contexts alike.

Through a detailed consideration of the social relations and cultural dimensions of equestrian practices across several continents, this volume provides readers with an understanding of the ways in which interactions with horses provide global connectivity with localized identities, and vice versa. It further discusses new frontiers in the research on and practice of equestrianism, framed against global megatrends and local micro-trends.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction to Equestrian Cultures in Global and Local Contexts....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Women’s Agency and Corporeality in Equestrian Sports: The Case of Female Leisure Horse-Riders in Tehran....Pages 17-33
The New Equestrian Economy in China....Pages 35-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Global Equestrian Trends in Local Context: Where Are All the Women in Doma Vaquera Competitions in Southern Spain?....Pages 65-79
Globalization and Equestrian Culture: The Case of Equitation in the French Tradition....Pages 81-104
National Treasure: Nationalistic Representations of the Finnhorse in Trotting Championships....Pages 105-117
The Transnational Image of the Spanish Horse in the Leisure Horse Trade....Pages 119-129
Making Trails: Horses and Equestrian Tourism in Poland....Pages 131-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The Aging of Canadian Equestrian Sport....Pages 155-169
Sociocultural Changes in Canadian Equestrian Sport....Pages 171-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
From Hípica to Cabanha: Brazilian Stable Hands in Different Cultures and Contexts....Pages 195-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
The Gunpowder Games: Traditional Equestrianism as Moroccan Invented Heritage Tourism....Pages 219-240
Race Politics: Horse Racing, Identity and Power in South Africa....Pages 241-266
Afterword: Formalising Equestrian Social Science....Pages 267-278

✦ Subjects

Cultural Studies;Gender Studies;Social Anthropology