Robert Coles

Biographic Data

ID3612906
NAMERobert Coles
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMEColes
SIGNATURECOLES R
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
ORCID0000-0001-5828-7794
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS84
TOTAL CITATIONS86
AUTHOR COUNT83
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1842
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Challenges in Forest Carbon Governance: Insights From Southeast Asia

    Open AccessYingshan Lau, Miles Kenney-Lazar et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2025References: 51

    Meeting global climate change mitigation targets will require enhanced nature‐based carbon sequestration, in which forest carbon schemes play a major role. This is despite criticisms of forest carbon schemes' efficacy, social impacts, and downgrading of other forest functions and services. Against this backdrop, we reviewed existing social science research on the governance of terrestrial forest carbon schemes in Southeast Asia, a forest‐rich reg…

  • Beyond the boom-bust cycle: An interdisciplinary framework for analysing crop booms

    Open AccessJean-Christophe Castella, Juliet N Lu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2023Cited by: 7References: 32

    The expansion of commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of livelihood and land-use changes in the world. Globalisation and other factors have intensified this expansion to the point where booms in single cash crops overtake entire regions before going bust, a pattern that is particularly pervasive in resource frontiers. Using case studies across the Mekong Region, a place which serves as a harbinger for crop booms globally, we propo…

  • Cashing in or driving development? Cross‐border traders and maize contract farming in northeast Laos

    Open AccessRobert ColesARTICLEJournal of Agrarian Change2022

    Contract farming is receiving renewed attention in research and policy in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia, as countries continue to undergo varied agrarian transitions and agri‐food production has become increasingly regionalized. In northeast Laos, previously isolated upland communities have experienced rapid transformations resulting from contract production of hybrid maize, mainly for industrial feed processing and livestock in Vietnam. Ba…

  • Family members, ambulance clinicians and attempting CPR in the community: The ethical and legal imperative to reach collaborative consensus at speed

    Open AccessRobert E Cole, Robert Coles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2021

    Here we present the personal perspectives of two authors on the important and unfortunately frequent scenario of ambulance clinicians facing a deceased individual and family members who do not wish them to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We examine the professional guidance and the protection provided to clinicians, which is not matched by guidance to protect family members. We look at the legal framework in which these scenarios are takin…

  • Local Agency in Development, Market, and Forest Conservation Interventions in Lao PDR’s Northern Uplands

    Open AccessRobert Coles, Robert Cole et al.ARTICLESoutheast Asian studies2019

    Themes of inclusion, empowerment, and participation are recurrent in development discourse and interventions, implying enablement of agency on the part of communities and individuals to inform and influence how policies that affect them are enacted. This article aims to contribute to debates on participation in rural development and environmental conservation, by applying a structure-agency lens to examine experiences of marginal farm households …

  • Lao peasants on the move: Pathways of agrarian change in Laos

    Open AccessRobert E Cole, Robert Coles et al.ARTICLEThe Australian Journal of…2019

    Grant Evans’ body of work on Laos consistently sought to understand how peasant society responded to political, social and economic change. As the Lao peasantry became ever more integrated both nationally and within the wider Southeast Asian region, and relations of market exchange came to dominate rural life, Evans maintained the need to reflect on Laos’ peasant roots to understand resulting pathways of agrarian change. This paper reconnects wit…

  • Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong region: Drivers of transformation and pathways of change

    Open AccessR Friend, Richard M Friend et al.ARTICLEEmerald Open Research2019Cited by: 1References: 22

    Agricultural and food systems in the Mekong Region are undergoing transformations because of increasing engagement in international trade, alongside economic growth, dietary change and urbanisation. Food systems approaches are often used to understand these kinds of transformation processes, with particular strengths in linking social, economic and environmental dimensions of food at multiple scales. We argue that while the food systems approach …

  • The colour of maize: Visions of green growth and farmers perceptions in northern Laos

    Open AccessK H, Maarit Helena Kallio et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2019Cited by: 7References: 27

    The rapid expansion of hybrid maize in the uplands of northern Laos is viewed by the government as meeting policy aims related to green economic development. Yet, growing evidence of negative consequences of maize expansion are emerging. Based on farmers’ perceptions, we study: (1) farmers’ reasons for adopting and abandoning maize, and; (2) implications of commercial maize expansion on local livelihood security and inclusiveness (food supply, in…

  • Objectives, ownership and engagement in Lao PDR’s Redd+ policy landscape

    Open AccessRobert E Cole, Robert Coles et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2017Cited by: 12References: 12

  • Propaganda, Censorship and Irish Neutrality in the Second World War

    Robert Coles, Robert ColeBOOKPropaganda, Censorship and Irish…2006Cited by: 2

    GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748622771);Allied propaganda and Eire censorship were a vital part of the conflict over Irish neutrality in the Second World War. Based upon original research in archives in Ireland, Great Britain, the United States and Canada, this study opens a new page in the history of wartime propaganda and censorship. It examines the channels of propaganda , including the press and other print media, broadcasting and f…

  • Children and War: A Historical Anthology

    James Alan Marten, Robert Coles et al.BOOKChildren and War2002

  • Poetry

    Robert ColesARTICLEAfrican American Review2002

  • Anglo-American Anti-fascist Film Propaganda in a Time of Neutrality: The Great Dictator , 1940

    Robert E Cole, Robert ColesARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2001Cited by: 3

    2001). Anglo-American Anti-fascist Film Propaganda in a Time of Neutrality: The Great Dictator , 1940. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 137-152

  • Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center

    Robert Coles, Gerald Markowitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center. By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. xx, 304 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8139-1687-9.) Get access Robert Coles Robert Coles Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1855–185…

  • The Secular Mind

    Robert ColesBOOKSecular Mind1999

    Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift f…

  • The Children's Civil War

    Robert Coles, James MartenARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article The Children's Civil War. By James Marten. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 365 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2425-9.) Get access Robert Coles Robert Coles Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 781–782, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567106 Published: 01 September 199…

  • Interactive Group Journals: Learning as a Dialogue among Learners

    Robert E Cole, Robert Coles et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly1998

    Robert Cole, Linda McCarthy Raffier, Peter Rogan, Leigh Schleicher, Interactive Group Journals: Learning as a Dialogue among Learners, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3, Research and Practice in English Language Teacher Education (Autumn, 1998), pp. 556-568

  • Life in Appalachia

    Open AccessRobert ColesARTICLESociety1998

  • Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (review)

    Robert ColesARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    Reviewed by: Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives Robert Coles Frank J. Sulloway. Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. New York: Pantheon, 1996. xviii + 653 pp. Ill. $U.S. 30.00; $Can. 39.95. The mystery of human behavior (its origins, the shaping influences upon it) continues to challenge us, as does that of creativity—what makes for talent, for originality of thought, perception, and expres…

  • Theoretical foundations of a program of home visitation for pregnant women and parents of young children

    Open AccessDavid Olds, David L Olds et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology1997

    This article reviews the theoretical foundations of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation that has been tested and refined over the past two decades while it was examined in a series of three randomized trials. It describes the role that theories of self-efficacy, human attachment, and human ecology have played in shaping the content and clinical methods of the program. The program was designed to improve: (1) the outcomes of …

  • Outcast Cape Town

    Western Coles, John Western et al.BOOKOutcast Cape Town1997Cited by: 14

    Social geographer John Western analyzes the urban spatial planning of the 1950 Group Areas Act that achieved, in the built environment of Cape Town, the racial separatism of apartheid. His new prologue for the paperback edition assesses the changes to be expected from the new government and the obstacles to significant change

  • Good Relations: Irish Neutrality and the Propaganda of John Betjeman, 1941–43

    Robert Coles, Robert ColeARTICLEÉire-Ireland1995Cited by: 2

    GOOD RELATIONS”: IRISH NEUTRALITY AND THE PROPAGANDA OF JOHN BETJEMAN, 1941–43 ROBERT COLE of all the neutral European nations during World War II, Éire proved to be the most diYcult for Great Britain to inXuence through propaganda. The extent to which British propaganda enjoyed any success at all with the Irish owed much to the particular talents—the “art,” if you will—of the poet John Betjeman. Wit, raconteur, enthusiast of architecture, a devo…

  • ‘Land of Hope and Glory’: English History, 1914–1945 (1965)

    Open AccessRobert Coles, Robert ColeCHAPTERA. J. P. Taylor1993

    In 1965, Taylor published his first and only comprehensive study of a major period of English history. With English History, 1914–1945 he embraced the history of his own time and place — came home, so to speak. The Origins of the Second World War would be his last offering in the field that made his scholarly reputation, and to which he had contributed as much as any modern historian. Some thought it had been a remarkable contribution. Douglas Ca…

  • The Precarious Balance: The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (1954)

    Open AccessRobert Coles, Robert ColeCHAPTERA. J. P. Taylor1993

    No phenomenon in Taylor’s lifetime affected him so profoundly as did the Cold War, which dominated international relations after 1945. In consequence, he was inspired to write at length about European diplomatic relations during a period when the European states were still sovereign. The rationale was obvious. The Cold War engaged the two post-war superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, with Britain as poor relation to America and th…

  • The Seductions of Tyranny

    Robert Coles, Howard BrodyARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1993