Gräschke Lucia
Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland, 80100 Joensuu, Finland.
Animals (Basel). 2024 Jun 24;14(13):1862. doi: 10.3390/ani14131862.
Every year, many horses are transported by air. Alongside sport horses traveling to tournaments worldwide, mainly breeding horses, such as shuttle stallions and broodmares, thoroughbreds traded at auctions, and leisure horses are transported by air. Research in veterinary science has highlighted welfare concerns during air transportation. Equine welfare is constituted in the language and discourse evolving from social, political, and ethical views about the treatment of horses. Consequently, this study targets power in creating equine welfare by analyzing the welfare discourses, transportation practices that generate welfare, and their impact on horses and humans in the transportation of horses by air. In detail, this research uses a Foucauldian discourse analysis to examine how welfare discourses and linked transportation practices constitute horses and humans using disciplinary power. The empirical material consists of 81 newspaper articles about horse transportation by air, five video clips, and four interviews with representatives of horse transport agencies that have set standards for the transportation of horses by air. The analysis discovers four different welfare discourses and various practices that guide the carrying of horses by air. The discourses have created inactive horses and human professionals in the business of horse transportation by air.
每年，许多马匹通过航空运输。除了前往世界各地参加比赛的运动马，主要还有种马，如穿梭种公马和繁殖母马、在拍卖会上交易的纯种马以及休闲马通过航空运输。兽医学研究突出了航空运输过程中的福利问题。马的福利体现在从关于马的待遇的社会、政治和伦理观点演变而来的语言和话语中。因此，本研究旨在通过分析福利话语、产生福利的运输实践及其在马匹航空运输中对马和人的影响，来探究在创造马的福利方面的权力问题。具体而言，本研究运用福柯式话语分析来考察福利话语和相关运输实践如何运用规训权力来塑造马和人。实证材料包括81篇关于马匹航空运输的报纸文章、五个视频片段以及对为马匹航空运输制定标准的马匹运输机构代表的四次访谈。分析发现了四种不同的福利话语以及指导马匹航空运输的各种实践。这些话语在马匹航空运输行业中塑造了消极的马和专业的人类从业者。
