Aging animal bodies
Horse Retirement Yards as Relational Spaces of Liminality, Dwelling and Negotiation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Franklin (0000-0003-4968-6835, Coventry University, corresponding author), Nora Schuurman (0000-0002-0835-5223, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 918-937 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2017.1392592 |
| OpenAlex | W2756145029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 57 |
This paper investigates how animal aging and ill-health are managed, spaced, interpreted, and experienced within a horse–human relationship. It does so by exploring the active construction of 'retirement' as a legitimate category within the life course of an animal. The analysis is concentrated around the emergent spaces of horse retirement yards. Conceptualising retirement yards as liminal spaces of transition and transformation, particular consideration is given to the role of the yard manager in creating a good retirement for the horse. This includes negotiating and narrating figurative and bodily processes of animal aging with the distant owner. The paper reviews the yard manager's careful enactment of re-wilding in the shaping of aged and unsound equine bodies, but also their authentic inter-weaving of practices of domestication. Balancing re-wilding and domestication, in both figurative and bodily form, appears central to securing dwelling-in-retirement on a retirement yard and therefore, successful animal aging. In accordance with the non-uniformity of liminality, however, the relational care practices which permit dwelling-in-retirement require daily attention. They remain subject to multiple potential sources of disruption, including those which extend well beyond the aged or unsound state of the individual animal
Biology · Domestication · Liminality · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Yard · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |