Tag: equestrian studies

The Ph.D. position is associated with the project “Speaking for the Horse: Participant Voice and Equestrian Wellbeing (EQUIP)”, funded by the Swedish-Norwegian Foundation for Equine Research. In collaboration with researchers from the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the project will investigate the relationship between voice behavior, organizational processes, and equine welfare in Scandinavian equestrian sports with an academic foundation in a relevant social scientific discipline.

Today, leisure is often seen as a universal right – accessible to all, regardless of background. Yet historically, access to leisure and sport was highly regulated and deeply unequal. This talk examines the cultural and social functions of leisure through the lens of equestrian sport. Focusing on the Victorian era, it argues that horseback riding was far more than a recreational pastime; it was a highly coded system of social communication. Practices such as dress, posture, and riding instructions served to reinforce existing social hierarchies and embodied norms.

A tribute is a celebration. And in this anthology, we seek to celebrate the beauty of the horse, its freedom, its strength, kindness, character and all the symbolic attributes and characteristics that we admire in its indomitable spirit. Celebrating the horse and the horse culture means trying to dialogue with all the worlds it inhabits, from the pastures where it still works, to sport, therapy, in a word, to think and research in all its multidimensionality.

Klara Boije af Gennäs is a doctoral student in sport science at Malmo University since September 2021. She is part of the doctoral school Learning in Multicultural Societal Contexts. She holds a BA in Sports Coaching and a MA from Gothenburg University. Klara’s research aims to increase the knowledge on sport related injuries in adolescents. She focuses on equestrian sport injuries using an interdisciplinary research approach combining sociology, sports medicine, and media and communication.

A tribute is a celebration. And in this conference, we seek to celebrate the beauty of the horse, its freedom, its strength, kindness, character and all the symbolic attributes and characteristics that we admire in its indomitable spirit. Celebrating the horse and the horse culture means trying to dialogue with all the worlds it inhabits, from the pastures where it still works, to sport, therapy, in a word, to think and research in all its multidimensionality

This conference brings together an international and interdisciplinary field of researchers. The unifying interest in the conference is scientific questions about the horse as well as the horse in society and the relation between humans and horses. In focus for the conference this year are questions regarding past, present and future challenges in relation to horse – human activities and interaction.

In our fifth instalment of horse sessions at the International Medieval Congress, we especially invite submissions in horse history responding to the special thematic strand of IMC 2020: borders. We also invite papers in horse history coming from all disciplinary approaches, including military studies, literature and art history, oriental studies, archaeology, osteology, history of veterinary medicine, and others.

Submissions may investigate any equine in the past, including donkeys, mules, zebras and onagers. The theme of the conference is “Embodied Equines,” inviting papers that explore both how people have understood, shaped, sustained, and used equine bodies, and tried to capture and understand equine experiences. Topics might include training, feeding, veterinary care, production, disposal, or behavior.

This book collection seeks to contribute to the discussions on horse-human gender and gender performance. It will explore horse-human interactions (and intra-actions) from a theoretically knowledgeable viewpoint, while offering new perspectives on how human and animal gender was created, experienced and performed.

Under senare år har frågor om hästens välfärd debatterats på sociala medier. Det kan handla om nosgrimmor, vilket bett som ska användas eller hästars sjukdomar. Många av oss söker information på internet, men hur gör vi? Hur påverkar det vår egen och hästens vardag? Den här studiens syfte är att forma en bättre miljö för häst och människa.