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Challenging power by tracing nonhuman animals in leisure through archival research: A critical reflection
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Challenging power by tracing nonhuman animals in leisure through archival research: A critical reflection

Paul Tully and Neil Carr
Loisir et société
24/03/2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2026.2635895
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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/50387

Abstract

More-than-human research archival research human–animal power social history multispecies leisure
The leisure field has in recent years undertaken an ‘animal’ turn to recognize that society contains more-than-human participants. This has seen the field delve into the study of multispecies entanglements, which includes those practices where human and nonhuman animals are actively in coexistence. Such research into multispecies entanglements needs to focus on the historical as much as the contemporary practices of leisure. However, the presence of nonhuman animals in the historical records of society is influenced and determined by power that can exclude or, at the very least, marginalize nonhuman animals. In this paper, therefore, the authors examine how archives contain a power that silences and hides the nonhuman animal presence through critical reflection on the searching of an archive and face-to-face communication with archival staff. It aims to demonstrate that speciesism power requires challenging if archives are to reflect nonhuman animals’ contributions to society and inform leisure scholarship.
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