Bringing the non-human component of life into our daily relations, Dr. Adelman has prolifically produced high-profile academic work about how we relate to horses, from social perceptions to debates on behavior and anthropocentrism. She shrewdly evokes discussions on the equestrian culture and the role of the horse within our society across functionalism and ecocentrism. Please check out two of her works and also her professional profile for networking.
The rodeo, it might be said, with its marked ritual and playful aspects, dramatizes and summons a world that seems to be on the path to extinction, but which, on the contrary, persists, invoking some of the deepest ambivalences of modernity – in relation to that which escapes control organization, classification, domination – and can, in some sense, both disrupt and restore the “civilizational order.” This is exactly why the rodeo may tell us so much about the society we are currently living in.
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