Robin Cohen

Biographic Data

ID204364
NAMERobin Cohen
GIVEN NAMESRobin
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0003-2153-8486
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS158
TOTAL CITATIONS400
AUTHOR COUNT154
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • Passively listening to Mozart’s sonata K. 448 enhances verbal working memory performance: A quantitative EEG study

    Open AccessRobin Cohen, Sapir Cohen et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2025

    Studies exploring the effects of music on cognitive processes in humans, particularly classical music compositions such as Mozart’s Sonatas, have emphasized its positive effects of music listening on mood and different cognitive functions. The current investigation intended to evaluate the impact of passively listening to Mozart’s Sonata K448 on emotional, cognitive, and brain activity parameters in adult healthy participants. Following the music…

  • Labour and Politics in Nigeria

    Robin CohenBOOKLabour and Politics in Nigeria2024

    Originally published in 1974 and with a new introduction for the 1981 edition, this book is a clear and vivid history of the role of organized labour in the politics of Nigeria. It covers the period from the first General Strike of 1945 to the civil war and reintegration of the country. As well as providing an analysis of the characteristics and attitudes of Nigeria’s wage earners, this study is concerned with their place in the wider political a…

  • An Emerging Nigerian Working Class: The Lagos Experience 1897-1939

    Arnold Hughes, Robin CohenCHAPTERAfrican Labor History2024

    This study is seen as an exploration of a still largely unmapped area of recent Nigerian social history—the emergence of a wage labor force in response to the economic changes brought about by the British annexation of Lagos (1861) and the gropings of this social aggregate toward some form of common identity born of its shared experiences and disabilities under colonial rule. Broadly, the time focus covers the first 40 years of the present centur…

  • Popular Struggles in South Africa

    Robin Cohen, William CobbettBOOKPopular Struggles in South Africa2024

  • Crisis in the Caribbean

    Fitzroy Ambursley, Robin CohenBOOKCrisis in the Caribbean2024

  • African Labor History

    Peter C W Gutkind, Robin Cohen et al.BOOKAfrican Labor History2024Cited by: 20

  • African Islands and Enclaves

    Robin CohenBOOKAfrican Islands and Enclaves2024Cited by: 9

  • Home and Exile: A Trialogue between Three Africans

    Robin CohenARTICLESocial research2024

    This article is centered around three Africans who wrote on the themes of home and exile: Chinua Achebe, a celebrated Nigerian writer; Lewis Nkosi, an accomplished Black South African writer and journalist; and me, Robin Cohen, a White South African social scientist. Their views on home and exile are discussed in the form of a comparison and implicit conversation (a trialogue). The lives of these three protagonists barely touched, but there are s…

  • Reluctant Hosts: Europe and Its Refugees

    Danièle Joly, Robin CohenBOOKReluctant Hosts2023

  • The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action

    Richard Sandbrook, Robin CohenBOOKThe Development of an African…2023

  • Naturalizing dying at home for older adults: A critical analysis of policy texts

    Open AccessErin Scott, Laura M Funk et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Administration2023References: 42

    Public policy initiatives, opinion surveys, and public rhetoric in Canada suggest people wish to die at home. Discourse analysis of statements, policies, reports, and websites of municipal, provincial, and federal governments show how public policy narratives reflect specific understandings of dying at home. Dying is positioned as best kept within the private “home” space. Though frequently framed as a choice, subtle rhetoric also prioritizes hom…

  • Forced Labour in Colonial Africa: A. T. Nzula I. I. Potekhin and A. Z. Zusmanovich

    Robin Cohen, H J K JENKINS et al.BOOKForced Labour in Colonial Africa2023Cited by: 1

    Originally published for the first time in English in 1979 this book represents one of the earliest Marxist analyses of the impact that colonialism had on Africa during the first half century that followed the Scramble. Nzula’s co-authored book, together with all his writings in the Negro Worker, are assembled here. The political experience of its African co-author resulted in a book which is alight with commitment to the liberation of the Contin…

  • Covid-19 and Global Networks: Reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism

    Open AccessJonathan V Beaverstock, Robin Cohen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Networks2023Cited by: 3References: 9

  • Global Diasporas: An Introduction

    Robin CohenBOOKGlobal Diasporas2022

    Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the field. This expanded and fully-revised 25th anniversary edition adds two new chapters on incipient diasporas and diaspora engagement while carefully clarifying the changing meanings of the concept of diaspora and incorporating updated statistics and new interpre…

  • Orlando Patterson, The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655–1838

    Open AccessRobin CohenARTICLESociety2022

  • Knowledge translation resources to support the use of quality of life assessment tools for the care of older adults living at home and their family caregivers

    Open AccessKara Schick‐makaroff, Richard Sawatzky et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2021

    Our study affirms the need to tailor KT resources on QOL assessment for different audiences. Our KT resources are available: www.healthyqol.com/older-adults

  • À la rencontre de la différence: Traces diasporiques et espaces de créolisation

    Open AccessRobin Cohen, Olivia Sheringham et al.BOOKÀ la rencontre de la différence2020

    Robin Cohen et Olivia Sheringham montrent comment des sociétés apprennent à vivre avec la diversité sociale et culturelle. Ils analysent en détail et en profondeur comment les concepts de formation identitaire, de diaspora et de créolisation mettent en lumière les processus et les géographies de la rencontre. S'appuyant sur des recherches menées à travers le monde, y compris des travaux de terrain récemment menés en Louisiane, en Martinique, à Ma…

  • Refugia: Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement

    Robin Cohen, Nicholas Van HearBOOKRefugia2019Cited by: 2

    This is an unusual book. Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address one of the biggest dilemmas of our age – how to solve the problems arising from mass displacement. As early versions of the solution proposed by Robin Cohen and Nicholas Van Hear filtered out, their vision of a new, networked, transnational archipelago, called Refugia, was immediately denounced or met…

  • Micro-Meso-Macro Practice Tensions in Using Patient-Reported Outcome and Experience Measures in Hospital Palliative Care

    Open AccessM Krawczyk, Richard Sawatzky et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2019Cited by: 3References: 33

    This article applies a micro-meso-macro analytical framework to understand clinicians' experiences and perspectives of using patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs) in routine hospital-based palliative care. We structure our discussion through qualitative analysis of a design and implementation project for using an electronic tablet-based tool among hospital-based palliative clinicians to assess patients' and their fami…

  • Chronotopes and fractals: An afterword to a special issue on diasporic trajectories

    Robin CohenARTICLEJournal of Postcolonial Writing2019References: 1

  • Afterword: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in African Societies

    Open AccessRobin CohenCHAPTERForging African Communities2018

    Patterns of inclusion and exclusion in Africa can be seen ‘from the inside’ and ‘from the outside’. The bulk of the analysis in this book concentrates on insider accounts and I will return to that perspective in my conclusion. However, in this Afterword, I want briefly to present a way of understanding the outside view, graphically proposed by Levi-Strauss (1995, pp. 297–298): If we studied societies from the outside, it would be tempting to dist…

  • Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies

    Gijsbert Oonk, Robin Cohen et al.BOOKRoutledge Handbook of Diaspora…2018

  • I'm only dealing with the acute issues: How medical ward 'busyness' constrains care of the dying

    Open AccessLisa S Chan, Lisa Chan et al.ARTICLEHealth An Interdisciplinary…2018Cited by: 2References: 44

    Acute hospital units are a common location of death. Curative characteristics of the acute medical setting make it difficult to provide adequate palliative care; these characteristics include an orientation to life-prolonging treatment, an emphasis on routine or task-oriented care and a lack of priority on emotional engagement with patients. Indeed, research shows that dying patients in acute medical units often experience unmet needs at the end …

  • If you want to know about social identities, study the Caribbean

    Robin CohenARTICLESocial Identities2018Cited by: 1References: 8

  • A tribute to Ken Post, 1935–2017

    Robin CohenARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2017References: 1

    when I was a Master's student at the London School of Economics.With a dozen others I was registered for a degree in African Government and Politics, the only problem being that the assigned lecturer had upped and gone off to Kano.Ken came to the rescue, seconded from Birmingham as a supplementary lecturer.He cut an impressive figure.Seriously overweight, he barrelled along the corridors of the Houghton Street building chuckling and loudly guffaw…