Sport, Animals, and Society [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction  1. Sport, Animals and Society  Michelle Gilbert and James Gillett  Historical and Evolving Dichotomies  2. Taming the Wild: Rodeo as a Human-Animal Metaphor  Arnold Arluke and Robert Bogdan  3. Human Horse Partnerships: Beyond the Dressage  Stephen J. Smith  4. The Masters of Nature: Golf, Non-Humans, and Consumer Culture  Brad Millington and Brian Wilson  Human and Animal Relations  5. The Horse Has Got to Want to Help : Human-Animal Habituses and Networks in Amateur Show Jumping  Kirrilly Thompson and Lynda Birke  6. From Sport to Therapy: The Social Stakes in the Rise of Equine-Assisted Activities  Jerome Michalon  7. Taking Teamwork Seriously: The Sport of Dog Agility as an Ethical Model of Cross-Species Companionship  Giuliana Lund  Ethics and Violence in Sport  8. The Ethics of Interspecies Sports  S.P. Morris  9. The Virtue of Compassion: Animals in Sport, Hunting as Sport, and Entertainment  Gabriela Tymowski  10. Necroposian Nights: Animal Sport, Civility and the Calgary Stampede  Kevin Young and Brittany Gerber&amlcM