Caring, relating, and becoming: Child-horse relationships in equestrian leisure
Caring, relating, and becoming: Child-horse relationships in equestrian leisure
This article theorizes child-horse relations and explores the role of care therein. The existing body of research on human-animal relationships in the context of equestrian sport and leisure has for the most part eschewed children’s narratives. Drawn from a wider project on British Indian children’s everyday leisure, this article presents a case study of a child engaged in horse riding as a structured leisure activity. Using interview data with the child and her parents, the analysis demonstrates that child-equine care relationships are reciprocal and unfold within a wider set of social relationships or what I call “multispecies generational order.”
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Mukherjee, Utsa
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July 2020
Mukherjee, Utsa
64791e74-3357-474c-9ec2-32c7e4effc3e
Mukherjee, Utsa
(2020)
Caring, relating, and becoming: Child-horse relationships in equestrian leisure.
Journal of Childhood Studies, 45 (2), .
(doi:10.18357/jcs452202019741).
Abstract
This article theorizes child-horse relations and explores the role of care therein. The existing body of research on human-animal relationships in the context of equestrian sport and leisure has for the most part eschewed children’s narratives. Drawn from a wider project on British Indian children’s everyday leisure, this article presents a case study of a child engaged in horse riding as a structured leisure activity. Using interview data with the child and her parents, the analysis demonstrates that child-equine care relationships are reciprocal and unfold within a wider set of social relationships or what I call “multispecies generational order.”
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