Paige Sweet
Biographic Data
| ID | 5801064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paige Sweet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paige |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Law, State, and Subjectivities at the Margins of Citizenship
What is the relationship between law/state and self? Studies of subjectivity, which refers to the relationship between self and power, seek to answer this question. Subjectivity compels us to consider how state power imposes norms, categories, and regulations through which selves are made up and become recognizable. Through this subjectivation process, we reproduce, legitimize, or at times challenge the power of law and state. To foreground the s…
Mask Up: Identifying Anger in Gender and Racial Formations
In a passing observation made while reading Joan Riviere’s theory of womanliness as masquerade, Judith Butler comments that what is hidden in masquerade is not sexuality, but rage. It’s a provocative glance at how gender and anger converge. But the quickness with which the discussion moves on from this insight suggests that this rage must also be quickly covered over by the discourse of gender. It recalls to my mind Frantz Fanon’s description of …
Response to Discussion
In her discussion of “Mask Up,” Annie Lee Jones pressures the two main metaphors in the essay, masks and masquerade, to ask what kinds of stories they license, articulating an important set of concerns for what the metaphors may obscure. The response considers oversights in the original essay and offers additional material to extend the conversation. Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional info…
Towards a critical realist epistemology
When critical realists consider epistemology they typically start from “epistemological relativism.” We find this position necessary, but we also find it insufficient because it lacks a critique of the highly unequal social relations among observers themselves—relations that shape the very production of knowledge. While it is indeed the case that all knowledge is fallible, it is also the case that all knowledge is positioned , with a particular s…
The Renewed Work of Copies
Towards a critical realist epistemology
When critical realists consider epistemology they typically start from “epistemological relativism.” We find this position necessary, but we also find it insufficient because it lacks a critique of the highly unequal social relations among observers themselves—relations that shape the very production of knowledge. While it is indeed the case that all knowledge is fallible, it is also the case that all knowledge is positioned , with a particular s…
The Renewed Work of Copies
Towards a critical realist epistemology
When critical realists consider epistemology they typically start from “epistemological relativism.” We find this position necessary, but we also find it insufficient because it lacks a critique of the highly unequal social relations among observers themselves—relations that shape the very production of knowledge. While it is indeed the case that all knowledge is fallible, it is also the case that all knowledge is positioned , with a particular s…
Mask Up: Identifying Anger in Gender and Racial Formations
In a passing observation made while reading Joan Riviere’s theory of womanliness as masquerade, Judith Butler comments that what is hidden in masquerade is not sexuality, but rage. It’s a provocative glance at how gender and anger converge. But the quickness with which the discussion moves on from this insight suggests that this rage must also be quickly covered over by the discourse of gender. It recalls to my mind Frantz Fanon’s description of …
Response to Discussion
In her discussion of “Mask Up,” Annie Lee Jones pressures the two main metaphors in the essay, masks and masquerade, to ask what kinds of stories they license, articulating an important set of concerns for what the metaphors may obscure. The response considers oversights in the original essay and offers additional material to extend the conversation. Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional info…
Law, State, and Subjectivities at the Margins of Citizenship
What is the relationship between law/state and self? Studies of subjectivity, which refers to the relationship between self and power, seek to answer this question. Subjectivity compels us to consider how state power imposes norms, categories, and regulations through which selves are made up and become recognizable. Through this subjectivation process, we reproduce, legitimize, or at times challenge the power of law and state. To foreground the s…
Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anger (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Autoethnography (1 works)