Patrice Régnier

Catholic University of the West | UCO

Depuis longtemps, nous interrogeons les animaux avec des concepts définis du point de vue humain. Cela nous a fait confondre les versions humaines de l'intelligence, du langage, des émotions, etc., avec la définition générale de ces capacités. Cela nous a amené à conclure que les animaux ne possédaient pas ces capacités ou qu’ils n’en possédaient q...

Prolegomena to an Analysis of Antispecists and Vegans Points of View The current media hype around moral questions of humans and animals is lead by people considering themselves as antispeciesists or vegans. Far from being a spontaneous apparition in the social field, these recent dynamics can massively be explained through the process of civilizat...

Plus aucune science ne peut penser les animaux à elle seule, ni prétendre pouvoir faire le tour de la question : pour mieux lire les animaux, il faut croiser les sciences. C’est devenu une évidence entre les différentes sciences de la nature, où des croisements ont déjà donné naissance à des hybrides devenus disciplines à part entière, telle l’écol...

Horse-riding is one of the more important forms of relationship between humans and horses. From the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, we can observe the civilizing process with equestrian practices, while studying horse-riding texts or federal guides. Horse-riding is used to form elite groups while establishing a parallel between mastering a h...

Horse-riding is one of the more important forms of humans-horses relationships. From the Middle Ages to the 19th century, we can observe the evolution of equestrian practices. The evolution of the activity from the Middle ages to the present day shows the decrease in violence applied to horses, as well as the lightening of equestrian activities to...

Nowadays, several processes help organize scholarly work about sport and physical activities in France. These include professional development activities of sport and leisure organizations; cultural innovations within sports and physical activities, which involve new spaces with new technologies; questions of public health; and questions of inclusi...

L'équitation comme activité physique met en jeu, quelle que soit sa forme (CSO, dressage, endurance, cross, TREC, randonnée, etc.), au moins un humain et un cheval. Plus de 500 000 cavaliers sont aujourd'hui membres de la fédération française d'équitation et de multiples cavaliers montent en dehors de toute structure, en randonnée ou dans leur prop...

Humans have had a wide range of relationships with the horse dating back to the Neolithic period. Initially, horses were important for utilitarian purposes including the food and sustenance they provided and more generally contributed to human progress. During the Feudal period only future knights – and later the nobles, were allowed to ride horses...

“Horse-riding is practiced by rich people or homosexuals!” There are plenty of stereotypes regarding equestrian activities which minimize the variety and even the existing kinds and uses. If jumping, dressage and eventing are Olympic disciplines, racing, trail riding, endurance, equine therapy and so on, mobilize tens of thousands of people in Fran...