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Clifton Evers

Clifton is currently researching relationships between men, masculinities, and pollution. He is particularly interested in adaptions in 'blue spaces' (e.g. seas, rivers, lakes, canals, sewers, etc.) during leisure on a permanently polluted planet. A recent film (co-produced with James Davoll)  - A Toxic Love Affair (2019) - about this topic won best experimental film at the ReelHeART Film festival in Toronto, Canada. He is writing a book about this area, to be published by Punctum Press (New York). Clifton thinks and feels through the challenges and issues raised by research participants through creative arts research methods, including self-reflexively analysing such by unsettling his body and emotions through performance. His research also extends to participatory action research about imagining 'just transitions' by post-industrial communities expected to move toward fossil fuel free futures. Clifton is collaborating with academics, artists, industry, and communities in Sweden and Spain and the UK to conduct this stream of his research. He is a member of the The Shadow Places Network: an international collaboration to re-imagine and co-produce connections for justice in an era of climate change, as well as co-investigator on a project for the Spanish Ministry of Research entitled: Illness in the Age of Extinction – Anglophone Narratives of Personal and Planetary Degradation.

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