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In the Anthropocene, pollution is part of the ecology. Nature-based leisure is now ‘polluted leisure’ as new ‘naturecultures’ emerge. It is well-understood that leisure causes pollution. However, less examined is how pollution generates, shapes, informs, and leads to gendered leisure. The concept ‘polluted leisure’ describes the embodied, sensorial, emotional, intellectual, spatial, and technological emergence of pollution–material and social; harmful and non-harmful; actual and perceived–assembling with leisure. Britton et al. (2018) provide a useful definition of the term ‘blue spaces’ as referring to “all visible outdoor, natural surface waters with potential for the promotion of human health and wellbeing” (p. 2). Men I have been researching with who undertake polluted leisure in blue spaces are working through what is quite literally toxic masculinity. In this talk, I share an interdisciplinary imaginative ethnography (involving arts-based research methods such as film, soundscapes, ethnographic fiction) about polluted leisure sites in England, Wales, and Japan. The findings reveal how cultural and material relationships between pollution and leisure are gendered. The project is also validating how an arts-based and interdisciplinary approach to articulating and analysing a more-than-human understanding of polluted leisure is useful. Finally, the outcomes of the project are troubling the now popular health discourse that celebrates blue spaces as therapeutic.
Author(s): Evers C
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Surviving The Anthropocene: Towards Elemental Literacy And Inter-Disciplinary Partnerships
Year of Conference: 2021
Print publication date: 24/05/2021
Acceptance date: 01/04/2021
URL: https://www.zrs-kp.si/index.php/event/symposium-surviving-the-anthropocene/
