Dr Camilla Royle's Outputs (6)

Look after gardens and they look after you: Cultivating wellbeing in a pandemic through a popular TV gardening programme (2024)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2024). Look after gardens and they look after you: Cultivating wellbeing in a pandemic through a popular TV gardening programme. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(5), 2204-2222. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241281229

Over the past few years there has been intense policy interest in the idea that nature-related activities such as gardening are good for wellbeing. Several studies have indeed found links between such activities and self-reported wellbeing. However,... Read More about Look after gardens and they look after you: Cultivating wellbeing in a pandemic through a popular TV gardening programme.

Marx Against Techno-Optimism (2024)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2024). Marx Against Techno-Optimism. Contributions to Political Economy, 43(1), 94-112. https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzae005

In the influential new book Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, Japanese academic Kohei Saito argues that Karl Marx made a theoretical breakthrough in later life. He abandoned his earlier interest in the development of p... Read More about Marx Against Techno-Optimism.

Thinking as an Engelsian (2021)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2022). Thinking as an Engelsian. Human geography, 15(1), 66-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786211050982

In this essay, I address the question of how Marxism influences our thought and action as radical intellectuals by focusing on Friedrich Engels’ work, Dialectics of Nature, the way it has been taken up in critical environmental studies and how Engels... Read More about Thinking as an Engelsian.

Friedrich Engels and Geography (2021)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2021). Friedrich Engels and Geography. Human geography, 14(2), 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786211024211

Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was Marx’s closest collaborator. He was influential in promoting Marxism both during Marx’s lifetime and after it. However, he is mentioned less often than Marx in geography. This editorial introduces a special issue of H... Read More about Friedrich Engels and Geography.

Silver linings and wishful thinking? More than human geographies of the coronavirus (2020)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2020). Silver linings and wishful thinking? More than human geographies of the coronavirus. Human geography, 13(3), 310-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1942778620953694

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated worldwide lockdown measures have several implications for geographical understandings of society–nature relations and of animal life. For some, the temporary lowering of carbon dioxide emissions during the loc... Read More about Silver linings and wishful thinking? More than human geographies of the coronavirus.

Complexity, Dynamism, and Agency: How Can Dialectical Biology Inform Geography? (2017)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2017). Complexity, Dynamism, and Agency: How Can Dialectical Biology Inform Geography?. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 49(5), 1427-1445. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12332

Dialectical approaches, variously interpreted, have been advocated for by geographers for several decades. At the same time, critical environmental geography has recently become dominated by vital materialist strands of thought, the advocates of whic... Read More about Complexity, Dynamism, and Agency: How Can Dialectical Biology Inform Geography?.