Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity - Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place - Vaia Touna

Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity - Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place - Vaia Touna

8. Response to Leslie Dorrough-Smith: Transgressions

Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity - Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place - Vaia Touna

Russell T. McCutcheon [+-]
University of Alabama
Russell T. McCutcheon is University Research Professor and, for 18 years, was the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He has written on problems in the academic labor market throughout his 30-year career and helped to design and run Alabama’s skills-based M.A. in religion in culture. Among his recent work is the edited resource for instructors, Teaching in Religious Studies and Beyond (Bloomsbury 2024).

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Using the recent scholarly controversy of suggesting that our approach to understanding transgender identities may have implications for studies of what some call transracial identities, this chapter invites Leslie Dorrough Smith to consider the wider implications of the sorts of comparisons that are necessary for scholars to carry out their work—comparisons exemplified in her chapter.

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McCutcheon, Russell. 8. Response to Leslie Dorrough-Smith: Transgressions. Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity - Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 142-154 Jan 2019. ISBN 9781781790731. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=35645. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.35645. Jan 2019

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