Equine Landscapes is a current intellectual project being undertaken with Dr. Alex Franklin at the University of Cardiff

Equine Landscapes are formations produced from the intersection of society and nature as a result of equine activities in the countryside.  They are distinctive landscapes which provide the aesthetic, domestic, competitive and training spaces in which humans enact their relationships with equines.  Unlike other ‘agricultural’ animals which are raised as part of the food and commodity economies, equines provide humans with the opportunity to build partnerships which perform embodied acts in space.  In terms of producing space, the equine/human partnership forms a sort of actant where the drives, needs and desires of both partners matter.  It is these drives, needs and desires (of both humans and non-humans) which frame and co-produce the distinctive socio-natures we call Equine Landscapes. 

At this point, five Themes are emerging from the field of Equine Landscapes.  These are:
I:  Performing Equine Landscapes – the symbolic and material production of time and space.
II:  Equine Landscapes of economic and social development, consumption of and in rural spaces.
III:  Gender & meaning: construction of the gendered self through equine activities.
IV:  Human-animal interaction: Embodiment; Learning, Discipline.
V:  Equine Landscapes – therapeutic landscapes and landscapes of recovery and recuperation.