Alan Cobley

595 total citations
21 papers, 339 citations indexed

About

Alan Cobley is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Cobley has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 339 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Anthropology and 2 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Alan Cobley's work include South African History and Culture (13 papers), African history and culture studies (4 papers) and Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 papers). Alan Cobley is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (13 papers), African history and culture studies (4 papers) and Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 papers). Alan Cobley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Jamaica and Barbados. Alan Cobley's co-authors include Karin Barber, Heribert Adam, Helen Bradford and Fred Curtis and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, The International Journal of African Historical Studies and African Studies Review.

In The Last Decade

Alan Cobley

18 papers receiving 221 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Cobley United States	7	205	163	69	33	26	21	339
Jesse Weaver Shipley United States	8	146 0.7×	91 0.6×	40 0.6×	80 2.4×	25 1.0×	18	279
Bart Moore‐Gilbert United Kingdom	8	196 1.0×	87 0.5×	156 2.3×	10 0.3×	26 1.0×	34	421
Brent Hayes Edwards United States	10	231 1.1×	79 0.5×	104 1.5×	48 1.5×	16 0.6×	44	417
Tejúmólá Ọláníyan United States	9	98 0.5×	49 0.3×	102 1.5×	25 0.8×	9 0.3×	40	260
Jay Fliegelman United States	7	100 0.5×	53 0.3×	147 2.1×	17 0.5×	14 0.5×	17	431
Felicity Nussbaum United States	12	138 0.7×	96 0.6×	204 3.0×	14 0.4×	23 0.9×	45	478
Aamir R. Mufti Jordan	9	246 1.2×	127 0.8×	187 2.7×	7 0.2×	13 0.5×	24	517
Moradewun Adejunmobi United States	11	96 0.5×	120 0.7×	90 1.3×	5 0.2×	10 0.4×	33	256
David Kazanjian United States	6	176 0.9×	69 0.4×	56 0.8×	10 0.3×	20 0.8×	18	317
Jean Muteba Rahier United States	11	201 1.0×	99 0.6×	14 0.2×	16 0.5×	35 1.3×	33	356

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cobley, Alan. (2020). Powering Apartheid: The Coalbrook Mine Disaster of 1960. South African Historical Journal. 72(1). 80–97. 1 indexed citations

Cobley, Alan. (2014). “Lacking in Respect for Whitemen”: “Tropical Africans” on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, 1903–1904. International Labor and Working-Class History. 86. 36–54.

Cobley, Alan. (2013). The other Zulus: the spread of Zulu ethnicity in colonial South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 47(2). 324–326. 1 indexed citations

Cobley, Alan. (2006). Oliver Tambo : Beyond the Engeli mountains, Luli Callinicos : book review. 38(1). 103–105. 3 indexed citations

Cobley, Alan. (2004). Black West Indian Seamen in the British Merchant Marine in the Mid nineteenth Century. History Workshop Journal. 58(1). 259–274. 4 indexed citations

Cobley, Alan, et al.. (2003). Apartheid's Landscape and Ideas: A Scorched Soul. African Studies Review. 46(2). 133–133. 2 indexed citations

Cobley, Alan. (2001). Does Social History have a Future? The Ending of Apartheid and Recent Trends in South African Historiography. Journal of Southern African Studies. 27(3). 613–625. 8 indexed citations

Cobley, Alan, et al.. (2001). Stronger, surer, bolder : Ruth Nita Barrow : social change and international development. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

Cobley, Alan. (2000). Comparative Experience With Regionalism: Southern Africa and the Caribbean. 19(1). 39–54. 1 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan, et al.. (1999). The Rules of the Game: Struggles in Black Recreation and Social Welfare Policy in South Africa. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 32(1). 176–176. 9 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan, et al.. (1999). Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 32(1). 242–242. 4 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan. (1999). Forgotten connections, unconsidered parallels: a new agenda for comparative research in Southern Africa and the Caribbean. African Studies. 58(2). 133–155. 2 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan & Karin Barber. (1998). Readings in African Popular Culture. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 31(2). 398–398. 216 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan. (1994). Liquor and Leadership: Temperance, Drunkenness and the African Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa. South African Historical Journal. 31(1). 128–148. 5 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan. (1994). A political history of playing fields: the provision of sporting facilities for Africans in the Johannesburg area to 1948. The International Journal of the History of Sport. 11(2). 212–230. 3 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan. (1992). ‘Far from home’: the origins and significance of the Afro‐Caribbean community in South Africa to 1930. Journal of Southern African Studies. 18(2). 349–370. 10 indexed citations

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Adam, Heribert & Alan Cobley. (1991). Class and Consciousness: The Black Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa, 1924-1950.. The American Historical Review. 96(4). 1256–1256. 31 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan. (1991). The ‘African National Church’: Self-Determination and Political Struggle Among Black Christians in South Africa to 1948. Church History. 60(3). 356–371. 2 indexed citations

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Bradford, Helen & Alan Cobley. (1991). Class and Consciousness: The Black Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa, 1924-1950. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 24(2). 442–442. 6 indexed citations

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Cobley, Alan. (1990). Class and Consciousness. Praeger eBooks. 30 indexed citations

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