Affective pedagogies, Equine-assisted experiments and Post-human leadership.

TY - JOUR

T1 - Affective pedagogies, Equine-assisted experiments and Post-human leadership.

AU - Staunæs, Dorthe

AU - Raffnsøe, Sverre

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Responding to Guattari’s call for a ‘mutation of mentality’, the article explores unconventional horse-assisted leadership learning as promising ways of embodied learning to be affected and response-able. By drawing on and continuing the work of Guattari and posthuman feminist scholars, we aim to show that studying the affective pedagogics of opening up the senses and learning to be affected is of vital importance. We analyse a posthuman auto-ethnography of developing capabilities to live and breathe together that allow us to relate in alternative ways. Experiments with affective pedagogy are conducted as they affect bodies through indeterminate and liminal contact zones and use aesthetics to evoke transformation in senses and thoughts, care and response. Since they are both domesticated and non-human, horses are promising companions in this endeavour of entrainment. However, these sensorial experiments also call for an ethics of cutting connections and, not least, of permitting refusals of refusals.

AB - Responding to Guattari’s call for a ‘mutation of mentality’, the article explores unconventional horse-assisted leadership learning as promising ways of embodied learning to be affected and response-able. By drawing on and continuing the work of Guattari and posthuman feminist scholars, we aim to show that studying the affective pedagogics of opening up the senses and learning to be affected is of vital importance. We analyse a posthuman auto-ethnography of developing capabilities to live and breathe together that allow us to relate in alternative ways. Experiments with affective pedagogy are conducted as they affect bodies through indeterminate and liminal contact zones and use aesthetics to evoke transformation in senses and thoughts, care and response. Since they are both domesticated and non-human, horses are promising companions in this endeavour of entrainment. However, these sensorial experiments also call for an ethics of cutting connections and, not least, of permitting refusals of refusals.

KW - Ledelse

KW - Ledelse

KW - Samfund/samtid

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058615467&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1357034X18817352

DO - 10.1177/1357034X18817352

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1357-034X

VL - 25

SP - 57

EP - 89

JO - Body & Society

JF - Body & Society

IS - 1

ER -