Outputs (8)

Using Theory to Study Empirical Cases: Reflections on Using Habermas to Study Genetic and Reproductive Politics (2020)
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), Article 6. 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 their production, selectively interpreted or even misinterpreted, and applied... Read More about Using Theory to Study Empirical Cases: Reflections on Using Habermas to Study Genetic and Reproductive Politics.

Trade unions and career services: Potential partners for promoting social justice at work (2020)
Journal Article
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 potentially valuable partnership has been underdeveloped. Two case studies of innovat... Read More about Trade unions and career services: Potential partners for promoting social justice at work.

A role for trades unions in careers education (2018)
Journal Article
Cimini, N., & Robertson, P. (2018). A role for trades unions in careers education. Scottish Left Review, 21-21

No abstract available.

Higher workload - a universal problem (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cimini, N. (2017). Higher workload - a universal problem

EIS-ULA President Nick Cimini, a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, describes the severe workload pressures that continue to be placed on university staff and students. The EIS has been campaigning on workload across all sectors for a number of... Read More about Higher workload - a universal problem.

Echoes of eugenics in Osborne’s budget (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cimini, N. (2015). Echoes of eugenics in Osborne’s budget

Eugenics is alive and well – in the Tory budget. Nicholas Cimini explains why.

Confidence and empowerment against pessimism and cynicism in Scottish referendum (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cimini, N. (2014). Confidence and empowerment against pessimism and cynicism in Scottish referendum

An Aesthetic for Deliberating Online: Thinking Through “Universal Pragmatics” and “Dialogism” with Reference to Wikipedia (2012)
Journal Article
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 dissimilar ways, these theorists came to consider an “aesthetic for democracy”... Read More about An Aesthetic for Deliberating Online: Thinking Through “Universal Pragmatics” and “Dialogism” with Reference to Wikipedia.

Struggles online over the meaning of ‘Down’s syndrome’: A ‘dialogic’ interpretation (2010)
Journal Article
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 ethic’ seems to prevail online, and Wikipedia and blogging means that anyo... Read More about Struggles online over the meaning of ‘Down’s syndrome’: A ‘dialogic’ interpretation.