Reginald Cline‐cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 4582094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reginald Cline‐cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reginald |
| FAMILY NAME | Cline‐cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-0447-6975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice
Revisiting cracks and
Roape: Looking back to move forward
This issue of the Review of African Political Economy marks a new and significant beginning, but one which, in many ways, is something of a return to ROAPE's origins half a century ago.It also reflects notable elements of the journal's subsequent evolution and continuing preoccupations.In addition to being the first of ROAPE's 50th anniversary year, this issue is the first to be produced in partnership with ScienceOpen, our new publishing platfor…
Capitalist crises and unstable global and national orders
Extractive capitalism and hard and soft power in the age of Black Lives Matter
Socially distanced capitalism in a time of coronavirus
In theory, all of us are vulnerable to coronavirus, but in practice how well we fare has to do with what you could call pre-existing conditions that are not only medical but economic, social, polit
On filling voids
On political economies of governance and resistance to (mis)rule
This issue of ROAPE appears at a time when, among Africanists and internationalists, three preoccupations struggle for prominence: first, (plans and preparation for and reactions to) elections in s
Contesting Forestry in West Africa
Part 1 Introduction: constructing, contesting and situating forestry in West Africa - an introduction. Part 2 Historical considerations: representing West African forests in British Imperial discourse, c.1800-1900 redefining forestry space and threatening livelihoods in colonial Northern Nigeria shaping socio-ecological and historical knowledge of deforestation in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Togo. Part 3 Cultural negotiations: trees and the domesti…
West African Worlds: Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development
Wood energy interventions and development in Kano, Nigeria: A longitudinal, ‘situated’ perspective
On territorialising power and rendering space and resources legible
On territorialising power and rendering space and resources legibleAs news reaches us of the passing of Pepe Roberts, retired member of the Editorial Working Group, it is fitting that several of the articles in issue no.144 of ROAPE, a general issue, speak to Pepe's recurrent interest in socio-economic and political transformation and change, as well as the uneven impacts and differentiated outcomes associated with the processes in question.We ma…
On Roape, historical (dis)continuities and textual activism
This issue of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), Issue 141, is a general one consisting of seven research articles and a further two briefings. Taken together, these cover a variety o
Markets and identities in Africa: Honouring Gavin Williams
The six articles in this issue of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) address the complex and contradictory relationship between markets, identities and economic change in contemporary Africa, with a specific focus on Nigeria and South Africa.Together, they explore how economic processes of globalisation, liberalisation, privatisation and subordination are shaped by the mobilisation and resistance of racial and cultural identities.And…
Identifying and exploiting cracks in capitalism's edifice
It is (always) the political economy, stupid
In the midst of a continuing economic crisis, the centres of global capitalism remain preoccupied with much that is predictable, if somewhat depressingly familiar: economies in crisis; unsustainabl
Against One-dimensional Africa
World Bank President Robert Zoellick recently wrote in Uganda's main independent newspaper: The financial crisis has wounded Africa. But Africans' vision for the future has remained resilient: They
Global Crisis, African Governance and a Sense of Déjà vu
Woodfuel Discourses and the Re-framing of Wood Energy
This article capitalises on the global resurgence of interest in energy issues to reflect anew on discourses surrounding woodfuel production, use and change. Three extant discourses (forestry, conservation and sustainability) are examined, with an emphasis on their origins, structure, content and links to policy. In addition, the processes implicated in the evolution of a fourth, emergent, discourse are also highlighted. Here, the focus is the on…
Mainstreaming the African environment in development
We write against a background of depressing news items.The latest round of WTO negotiations over trade tariffs and subsidies has been suspended amid mutual recrimination by the EU and USA.At the same time, as unauthorised landings of desperate and destitute African migrants on the southern shores and outposts of the European Union reach an annual peak, EU countries are concluding multi-lateral and bi-lateral 'sustainable fishing' deals with gover…
Blazing a trail while lazing around: Knowledge Processes and Wood-Fuel Paradoxes
Using autobiographical experience with reference to wood-fuel research in two locations in West Africa, this article illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventually produced as knowledge. However, although it explores the various roles that knowledge plays in the social relations at particular historical moments in the personal and professional develo…
ICTs, ‘virtual colonisation’ & political economy
The potential consequences of the nature and dynamics of the increasing use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the political economy of Africa deserve considerably more critic
Perspectives From Yet Other Places, Spaces and Voices: A Commentary on Michael Watts' “Development and Governmentality”
Knowledge Claims and Landscape: Alternative Views of the Fuelwood-Degradation Nexus in Northern Nigeria
The existence of competing or contradictory orthodoxies in Nigerian forestry is a long recognised, if little explored research problem. Far from being the product of a monolithic culture, regional forestry, or, more inclusively agrosilvipastoral landscapes and fuelscapes, are social products which have been described as often construed in a plurality of ways and invested with diverse if not antithetical meanings by different individuals and socia…
Promoting (anti‐)social forestry in northern Nigeria
Across Nigeria, there exists a need for a comprehensive inventory of natural resources, including forestry resources, and for the identification and promotion of ecologically sound development practice. This is of particular relevance in the drylands of the extreme north which depend overwhelmingly on biomass energy, and where the dominant form of land use change is the expansion of agriculture into woodland, shrubland and grassland. Here, vast e…
Rainforest Relations, Gender and Resource Use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone
On fuelwood consumption, population dynamics and deforestation in Africa
Knowledge Claims and Landscape: Alternative Views of the Fuelwood-Degradation Nexus in Northern Nigeria
The existence of competing or contradictory orthodoxies in Nigerian forestry is a long recognised, if little explored research problem. Far from being the product of a monolithic culture, regional forestry, or, more inclusively agrosilvipastoral landscapes and fuelscapes, are social products which have been described as often construed in a plurality of ways and invested with diverse if not antithetical meanings by different individuals and socia…
The socio-ecology of firewood and charcoal on the Freetown peninsula
Opening ParagraphIn a country which in the last 200 years has undergone continuous and often momentous political, economic and social changes, few things are capable of conveying as strong an impression of stability and changelessness as wood fuel (charcoal and firewood) consumption and production; and nowhere is this more striking than on the Freetown or Western Area (formerly Colony) peninsula. In this region, which has always accounted for the…
Contesting Forestry in West Africa
Part 1 Introduction: constructing, contesting and situating forestry in West Africa - an introduction. Part 2 Historical considerations: representing West African forests in British Imperial discourse, c.1800-1900 redefining forestry space and threatening livelihoods in colonial Northern Nigeria shaping socio-ecological and historical knowledge of deforestation in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Togo. Part 3 Cultural negotiations: trees and the domesti…
ICTs, ‘virtual colonisation’ & political economy
The potential consequences of the nature and dynamics of the increasing use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the political economy of Africa deserve considerably more critic
Political Economy, Fuelwood Relations, and Vegetation Conservation: Kasar Kano, Northern Nigeria, 1850–1915
Wartime forest energy policy and practice in British West Africa: Social and Economic Impact on the Labouring Classes 1939–45
The recent resurgence of interest in the impact of World War II on African populations has, to date, neglected the theme of forest energy (firewood and charcoal) production, consumption and exchange. This needs to be rectified, for several reasons: (1) wood fuel accounted for the lion's share of wartime forestry output by volume and value, prompting (2) an unprecedented degree of intensity in, and variety of, state emergency intervention in wood …
Promoting (anti‐)social forestry in northern Nigeria
Across Nigeria, there exists a need for a comprehensive inventory of natural resources, including forestry resources, and for the identification and promotion of ecologically sound development practice. This is of particular relevance in the drylands of the extreme north which depend overwhelmingly on biomass energy, and where the dominant form of land use change is the expansion of agriculture into woodland, shrubland and grassland. Here, vast e…
Capitalist crises and unstable global and national orders
Socially distanced capitalism in a time of coronavirus
In theory, all of us are vulnerable to coronavirus, but in practice how well we fare has to do with what you could call pre-existing conditions that are not only medical but economic, social, polit
Wood energy interventions and development in Kano, Nigeria: A longitudinal, ‘situated’ perspective
Woodfuel Discourses and the Re-framing of Wood Energy
This article capitalises on the global resurgence of interest in energy issues to reflect anew on discourses surrounding woodfuel production, use and change. Three extant discourses (forestry, conservation and sustainability) are examined, with an emphasis on their origins, structure, content and links to policy. In addition, the processes implicated in the evolution of a fourth, emergent, discourse are also highlighted. Here, the focus is the on…
Blazing a trail while lazing around: Knowledge Processes and Wood-Fuel Paradoxes
Using autobiographical experience with reference to wood-fuel research in two locations in West Africa, this article illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventually produced as knowledge. However, although it explores the various roles that knowledge plays in the social relations at particular historical moments in the personal and professional develo…
African and Africanist biodiversity research in a neo-liberal context
This article situates African(ist) biodiversity research in its wider neo-liberal context. It argues that the 'africanisation' of biodiversity as concept and practice must, of necessity, take place within a neo-liberal context of globalisation and localisation, and against the background of continually evolving relations between civil society, the market and the state. For this reason, the article concludes, African(ist) biodiversity strategies n…
Towards an understanding of man-firewood relations in Freetown (Sierra Leone)
On filling voids
On territorialising power and rendering space and resources legible
On territorialising power and rendering space and resources legibleAs news reaches us of the passing of Pepe Roberts, retired member of the Editorial Working Group, it is fitting that several of the articles in issue no.144 of ROAPE, a general issue, speak to Pepe's recurrent interest in socio-economic and political transformation and change, as well as the uneven impacts and differentiated outcomes associated with the processes in question.We ma…
Against One-dimensional Africa
World Bank President Robert Zoellick recently wrote in Uganda's main independent newspaper: The financial crisis has wounded Africa. But Africans' vision for the future has remained resilient: They
Global Crisis, African Governance and a Sense of Déjà vu
Mainstreaming the African environment in development
We write against a background of depressing news items.The latest round of WTO negotiations over trade tariffs and subsidies has been suspended amid mutual recrimination by the EU and USA.At the same time, as unauthorised landings of desperate and destitute African migrants on the southern shores and outposts of the European Union reach an annual peak, EU countries are concluding multi-lateral and bi-lateral 'sustainable fishing' deals with gover…
The urban fuel plantation in tropical Africa
Food, Energy and Society, by D. & M. Pimental. London: Edward Arnold, 1979, 162 pp
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Towards an understanding of man-firewood relations in Freetown (Sierra Leone)
The socio-ecology of firewood and charcoal on the Freetown peninsula
Opening ParagraphIn a country which in the last 200 years has undergone continuous and often momentous political, economic and social changes, few things are capable of conveying as strong an impression of stability and changelessness as wood fuel (charcoal and firewood) consumption and production; and nowhere is this more striking than on the Freetown or Western Area (formerly Colony) peninsula. In this region, which has always accounted for the…
On fuelwood consumption, population dynamics and deforestation in Africa
The urban fuel plantation in tropical Africa
Wartime forest energy policy and practice in British West Africa: Social and Economic Impact on the Labouring Classes 1939–45
The recent resurgence of interest in the impact of World War II on African populations has, to date, neglected the theme of forest energy (firewood and charcoal) production, consumption and exchange. This needs to be rectified, for several reasons: (1) wood fuel accounted for the lion's share of wartime forestry output by volume and value, prompting (2) an unprecedented degree of intensity in, and variety of, state emergency intervention in wood …
Political Economy, Fuelwood Relations, and Vegetation Conservation: Kasar Kano, Northern Nigeria, 1850–1915
Tropical Africa
Journal Article Tropical Africa Get access Tropical Africa, by Tony Binns. Routledge, London, 1994. xiii+190. £8.99 paperback. 0 415 04801 X. REGINALD CLINE-COLE REGINALD CLINE-COLE University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 374, January 1995, Pages 141–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098793 Published: 01 January 1995
Rainforest Relations, Gender and Resource Use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone
African and Africanist biodiversity research in a neo-liberal context
This article situates African(ist) biodiversity research in its wider neo-liberal context. It argues that the 'africanisation' of biodiversity as concept and practice must, of necessity, take place within a neo-liberal context of globalisation and localisation, and against the background of continually evolving relations between civil society, the market and the state. For this reason, the article concludes, African(ist) biodiversity strategies n…
Promoting (anti‐)social forestry in northern Nigeria
Across Nigeria, there exists a need for a comprehensive inventory of natural resources, including forestry resources, and for the identification and promotion of ecologically sound development practice. This is of particular relevance in the drylands of the extreme north which depend overwhelmingly on biomass energy, and where the dominant form of land use change is the expansion of agriculture into woodland, shrubland and grassland. Here, vast e…
Knowledge Claims and Landscape: Alternative Views of the Fuelwood-Degradation Nexus in Northern Nigeria
The existence of competing or contradictory orthodoxies in Nigerian forestry is a long recognised, if little explored research problem. Far from being the product of a monolithic culture, regional forestry, or, more inclusively agrosilvipastoral landscapes and fuelscapes, are social products which have been described as often construed in a plurality of ways and invested with diverse if not antithetical meanings by different individuals and socia…
Perspectives From Yet Other Places, Spaces and Voices: A Commentary on Michael Watts' “Development and Governmentality”
ICTs, ‘virtual colonisation’ & political economy
The potential consequences of the nature and dynamics of the increasing use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the political economy of Africa deserve considerably more critic
Mainstreaming the African environment in development
We write against a background of depressing news items.The latest round of WTO negotiations over trade tariffs and subsidies has been suspended amid mutual recrimination by the EU and USA.At the same time, as unauthorised landings of desperate and destitute African migrants on the southern shores and outposts of the European Union reach an annual peak, EU countries are concluding multi-lateral and bi-lateral 'sustainable fishing' deals with gover…
Blazing a trail while lazing around: Knowledge Processes and Wood-Fuel Paradoxes
Using autobiographical experience with reference to wood-fuel research in two locations in West Africa, this article illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventually produced as knowledge. However, although it explores the various roles that knowledge plays in the social relations at particular historical moments in the personal and professional develo…
Woodfuel Discourses and the Re-framing of Wood Energy
This article capitalises on the global resurgence of interest in energy issues to reflect anew on discourses surrounding woodfuel production, use and change. Three extant discourses (forestry, conservation and sustainability) are examined, with an emphasis on their origins, structure, content and links to policy. In addition, the processes implicated in the evolution of a fourth, emergent, discourse are also highlighted. Here, the focus is the on…
Against One-dimensional Africa
World Bank President Robert Zoellick recently wrote in Uganda's main independent newspaper: The financial crisis has wounded Africa. But Africans' vision for the future has remained resilient: They
Global Crisis, African Governance and a Sense of Déjà vu
It is (always) the political economy, stupid
In the midst of a continuing economic crisis, the centres of global capitalism remain preoccupied with much that is predictable, if somewhat depressingly familiar: economies in crisis; unsustainabl
Identifying and exploiting cracks in capitalism's edifice
Markets and identities in Africa: Honouring Gavin Williams
The six articles in this issue of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) address the complex and contradictory relationship between markets, identities and economic change in contemporary Africa, with a specific focus on Nigeria and South Africa.Together, they explore how economic processes of globalisation, liberalisation, privatisation and subordination are shaped by the mobilisation and resistance of racial and cultural identities.And…
On Roape, historical (dis)continuities and textual activism
This issue of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), Issue 141, is a general one consisting of seven research articles and a further two briefings. Taken together, these cover a variety o
On territorialising power and rendering space and resources legible
On territorialising power and rendering space and resources legibleAs news reaches us of the passing of Pepe Roberts, retired member of the Editorial Working Group, it is fitting that several of the articles in issue no.144 of ROAPE, a general issue, speak to Pepe's recurrent interest in socio-economic and political transformation and change, as well as the uneven impacts and differentiated outcomes associated with the processes in question.We ma…
West African Worlds: Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development
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