ABSTRACT

This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete, and encourages the reader to think critically about animal ethics, animals in space, time and place, and the human-animal relationship. The chapters highlight persistent dichotomies in the use of and collaboration with animals for sport, and present strategies for moving forward in the study of interspecies relations.

part |11 pages

Introduction

part |54 pages

Historical and Evolving Dichotomies

chapter 2|20 pages

Taming the Wild

Rodeo as a Human-Animal Metaphor

chapter 3|17 pages

Human-Horse Partnerships

The Discipline of Dressage

chapter 4|15 pages

The Masters of Nature

Golf, Nonhumans, and Consumer Culture

part |57 pages

Human and Animal Relations

chapter 5|16 pages

“The Horse Has Got to Want to Help”

Human-Animal Habituses and Networks of Relationity in Amateur Show Jumping

chapter 6|16 pages

From Sport to Therapy

The Social Stakes in the Rise of Equine-Assisted Activities

chapter 7|23 pages

Taking Teamwork Seriously

The Sport of Dog Agility as an Ethical Model of Cross-Species Companionship 1

part |45 pages

Ethics and Violence in Sport

chapter 8|13 pages

The Ethics of Interspecies Sports

chapter 9|15 pages

The Virtue of Compassion

Animals in Sport, Hunting as Sport, and Entertainment

chapter 10|15 pages

“Necropsian“ nights

Animal Sport, Civility, and the Calgary Stampede

part |60 pages

Sporting Identities of Human and Animal Athletes

chapter 11|19 pages

A Star is Born to Buck

Animal Celebrity and the Marketing of Professional Rodeo

chapter 13|22 pages

Branding Boundaries

Colonial Sporting Identities and the Racialized Body

part |59 pages

Future Directions

chapter 14|18 pages

Young Equestrians

The Horse Stable as a Cultural Space

chapter 15|17 pages

Embodied Communication

The Poetics and Politics of Riding

chapter 16|22 pages

Communion without Collision

Animals, Sport, and Interspecies Co-presence