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1 online resource (262 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF PLATES; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; The wounded storyteller; Framing the research; Chapter synopsis; CHAPTER ONE -- SETTING THE SCENE; Geographies of disability; Cross-species encounters; Animal geographies; Summary; CHAPTER TWO -- THINKING EMOTION AND AFFECT THROUGH HORSE-HUMAN RELATIONS; From Centaurs to Bodies without Organs; Geographies of emotion and affect; Exploring power relationships between horses and humans: Domination or co-operation?; Summary; CHAPTER THREE -- HORSES FOR COURSES; Research Design. |
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Methodological strategiesResearch sites; Analysis; Summary; CHAPTER FOUR -- LEARNING TO BE AFFECTED BY HORSES; Attending a Riding School; Beginner riders and the stratified body; Dismantling the body and learning to be affected; Recognising horses as emotional beings; Summary; CHAPTER FIVE -- POWER DYNAMICS OF HORSE-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS; Affective relations between horses; Modalities of instrumental power; Associational power (to act); Summary; CHAPTER SIX -- WHAT CIRCULATES ON THE HORSE-RIDER BWO?; Connective energies; The Horse-Rider Body-without-Organs; The emotional capture of affect; Summary. |
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CHAPTER SEVEN -- TRAVELLING ACROSS BORDERSDisability identities within "Riding for the Disabled Association" (RDA) groups; reproducing the body as organism; Lines of flight from the disabled organism; Communication and (dis)empowerment; crossing borders through reading affect and emotion; Being with horses; Summary; CHAPTER EIGHT -- CONCLUDING DISCUSSION; Themes running through the book; Future research; Personal reflections; Summary; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. |
| Summary |
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 fr ... |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-247) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Horsemanship for people with disabilities.
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Horsemanship for people with disabilities. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Nosworthy, Cheryl. A Geography of Horse-Riding : The Spacing of Affect, Emotion and (Dis)ability Identity through Horse-Human Encounters. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2013 9781443843355 |
| ISBN |
9781443865524 (electronic book) |
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1443865524 (electronic book) |
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1322056854 |
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9781322056852 |
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