Nikolas Sweet
Biographic Data
| ID | 74923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolas Sweet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3957-2888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contested encounters
Talk on the move
This article explores meaning making in mobilities research by deconstructing the duality of experience and representation. In so doing, it situates language as a form of social action and not a mere representation of preexisting acts of mobility. Drawing on case studies from ethnographic field work in southeastern Senegal, this article examines routines of verbal creativity among West African migrants as well as the life of a migrant who must ba…
Participant, Role and Status of
Although the role of participant might appear to be self‐evident in the analysis of social interaction, it is anything but. It might seem tempting to count the individuals present at any given encounter and view them as participants; however, Erving Goffman deconstructed the roles of speaker and hearer in a way that showed laminated forms of participation within any ostensible interlocutor and across interactions. Subsequent scholarship has track…
Ritual Contingency
This article analyzes the naming ceremony of a young girl in a village in southeastern Senegal to show how kola nuts distributed during the course of such rituals provide material channels through which individuals managed inclusion across participation frameworks. Even for those not in attendance, distributed kola co-constituted states of participation and witnessing, in which recipients could subsequently report about such events as ratified au…
Ritual Contingency
This article analyzes the naming ceremony of a young girl in a village in southeastern Senegal to show how kola nuts distributed during the course of such rituals provide material channels through which individuals managed inclusion across participation frameworks. Even for those not in attendance, distributed kola co-constituted states of participation and witnessing, in which recipients could subsequently report about such events as ratified au…
Participant, Role and Status of
Although the role of participant might appear to be self‐evident in the analysis of social interaction, it is anything but. It might seem tempting to count the individuals present at any given encounter and view them as participants; however, Erving Goffman deconstructed the roles of speaker and hearer in a way that showed laminated forms of participation within any ostensible interlocutor and across interactions. Subsequent scholarship has track…
Ritual Contingency
This article analyzes the naming ceremony of a young girl in a village in southeastern Senegal to show how kola nuts distributed during the course of such rituals provide material channels through which individuals managed inclusion across participation frameworks. Even for those not in attendance, distributed kola co-constituted states of participation and witnessing, in which recipients could subsequently report about such events as ratified au…
Talk on the move
This article explores meaning making in mobilities research by deconstructing the duality of experience and representation. In so doing, it situates language as a form of social action and not a mere representation of preexisting acts of mobility. Drawing on case studies from ethnographic field work in southeastern Senegal, this article examines routines of verbal creativity among West African migrants as well as the life of a migrant who must ba…
Contested encounters
Epistemology (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)