Using Theory to Study Empirical Cases: Reflections on Using Habermas to Study Genetic and Reproductive Politics
Journal Article
Cimini, N. (2020)
Using Theory to Study Empirical Cases: Reflections on Using Habermas to Study Genetic and Reproductive Politics. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-21.3.3366
Attempts to apply social theory to the study of empirical cases are too often reduced to treating theory as formula. Complex theoretical ideas are torn from the contexts of th...
Trade unions and career services: Potential partners for promoting social justice at work
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Robertson, P. J., Cimini, N., Post, J., & Corry, J. (2020)
Trade unions and career services: Potential partners for promoting social justice at work. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 44(1), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4401
This paper argues that trade unions represent natural allies for career services, as they have shared interests in addressing issues of social justice at work. This potentiall...
A role for trades unions in careers education
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Cimini, N., & Robertson, P. (2018)
A role for trades unions in careers education. Scottish Left Review, 21-21
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An Aesthetic for Deliberating Online: Thinking Through “Universal Pragmatics” and “Dialogism” with Reference to Wikipedia
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Cimini, N., & Burr, J. (2012)
An Aesthetic for Deliberating Online: Thinking Through “Universal Pragmatics” and “Dialogism” with Reference to Wikipedia. Information Society, 28(3), 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2012.669448
In this article we examine contributions to Wikipedia through the prism of two divergent critical theorists: Jürgen Habermas and Mikhail Bakhtin. We show that, in slightly dis...
Struggles online over the meaning of ‘Down’s syndrome’: A ‘dialogic’ interpretation
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Cimini, N. (2010)
Struggles online over the meaning of ‘Down’s syndrome’: A ‘dialogic’ interpretation. Health, 14(4), 398-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459309358598
Bakhtin’s suggestion that a unified truth demands a ‘multiplicity of consciousnesses’ seems particularly relevant in the ‘globally connected age’. At a time when the DIY/‘punk...