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  • AFRICAN ISLANDS AND ENCLAVES
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    AFRICAN ISLANDS AND ENCLAVES
    ROBIN COHEN
    Small territories and islands are significant flashpoints in the contemporary world order. They are both exposed to the vicissitudes of international power rivalries and can find it difficult to sustain a stable internal political and economic order. Originally published in 1983 this book provides a balance between enclaves and islands, between Indian and Atlantic Ocean territo...

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  • POPULAR STRUGGLES IN SOUTH AFRICA
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    POPULAR STRUGGLES IN SOUTH AFRICA
    ROBIN COHEN, WILLIAM COBBETT
    ‘Popular Struggles or One Struggle?’ Originally published in 1988 shortly after the miners’ strike in South Africa of 1987, this book begins with a strongly argued and seminal discussion of this question by William Cobbett and Robin Cohen. The book had an urgency and relevance at its time of original publication, but many of the themes it discusses remain as relevant today. Nea...

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  • ENDGAME IN SOUTH AFRICA?
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    ENDGAME IN SOUTH AFRICA?
    ROBIN COHEN
    The white monopoly of political power; the attempt to make race coincide with space; the regulation of the labour supply; the maintenance of social control. Originally published in 1986 and now reissued with a new preface by Robin Cohen, this book acknowledges that the above are the four pillars of apartheid and asks if white political power were dislodged whether the other thr...

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  • LABOUR AND POLITICS IN NIGERIA
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    LABOUR AND POLITICS IN NIGERIA
    ROBIN COHEN
    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 earn...

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  • REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
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    REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE
    ROBIN COHEN, YVONNE G. MUTHIEN, ABEBE ZEGEYE
    Originally published in 1990, this book provides a unique view of South Africa and when it was published, it represented a coming of age of a new and vigorous strand of scholarship. The contributors are black social scientists, doctors or trade unionists, some working inside black universities which subsequently turned against the apartheid planners who created them. This book ...

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  • FRONTIERS OF IDENTITY
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    FRONTIERS OF IDENTITY
    ROBIN COHEN
    Originally published in 1994, this book considers one of the enduring themes of social science. How is a national identity forged and sustained? How does it change over time? Who is included in the body politic and who is socially excluded? How do the established population, opinion-makers and politicians react to more marginal people, including long-spurned minorities and rece...

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  • THE NEW HELOTS
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    THE NEW HELOTS
    ROBIN COHEN
    Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a substantial introduction by Robin Cohen, this wide-ranging work of comparative and historical sociology argues that a major engine of capital’s growth lies in its ability to find successive cohorts of quasi-free workers to deploy in the farms, mines and factories of an expanding international division of labour. These workers...

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  • CONTESTED DOMAINS
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    CONTESTED DOMAINS
    ROBIN COHEN
    Originally published in 1991, this volume discusses the urban working class, international migrants and the so-called lumpenproletariat. The book exhibits the fruitful interaction that has taken place between sociological theory, new views of the changing world economy and the empirical realities of working class experience and struggles. The dual theme of the book is the contr...

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  • PEASANTS AND PROLETARIANS
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    PEASANTS AND PROLETARIANS
    ROBIN COHEN
    Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of international, interracial working- class action and the relationship between workers’ struggles in the periphery and those in advanced capitalist countries. It analyses the nature of class alliances forged in the countryside and the urban sprawls of the developing world among workers, students and the unemploy...

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  • GLOBAL DIASPORAS
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    GLOBAL DIASPORAS
    ROBIN COHEN
    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 con...

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  • REFUGIA
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    REFUGIA
    ROBIN COHEN / NICHOLAS VAN HEAR
    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, trans...

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  • DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM IN AFRICA
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    DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM IN AFRICA
    ROBIN COHEN
    After independence many African countries abjured conventional patterns of political representation and democratic participation in the interest of creating a unified state and promoting economic development. Today, however, the dominant models of one-party democracy and African socialism are in terminal collapse as a result of internal pressures a ...

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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DIASPORA STUDIES
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    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DIASPORA STUDIES
    ROBIN COHEN
    The word ‘diaspora’ has leapt from its previously confined use – mainly concerned with the dispersion of Jews, Greeks, Armenians and Africans away from their natal homelands – to cover the cases of many other ethnic groups, nationalities and religions. But this ‘horizontal’ scattering of the word to cover the mobility of many groups to many destinations, has been paralleled als...

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  • MIGRATION AND ITS ENEMIES
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    MIGRATION AND ITS ENEMIES
    ROBIN COHEN
    Can politicians effectively control national borders even if they wish to do so? How do politically powerless migrants relate to more privileged migrants and to national citizens? Is it possible for capital to move to labour rather than vice versa? In this book Robin Cohen shows how the preferences, interests and actions of the three major social actors in international mig...

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