By the power vested in me : how experts shape same-sex marriage debates
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By the power vested in me : how experts shape same-sex marriage debates
Columbia University Press, [2025]
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:"Same-sex marriage in the United States and France was a contested legal topic. Both countries relied on evidence from experts to sort through their challenges and both countries ended-up with roughly the same outcome of legal same-sex marriage. However, the expert justifications that were essential in the United States were more or less nonexistent in France and vice versa. In By the Power Vested in Me, Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer shows how scientific and technical merit is couched within politics, money, emotion, and cultural taboo and formulates what he calls expert capital. Through 72 interviews and 300 hours of ethnographic observation, Stambolis-Ruhstorfer takes readers through the contestation of same-sex marriage in the American courts, culminating in the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges case and the French parliament, where same-sex marriage was hotly debated through nationally televised hearings. In telling these two stories, he examines how and why certain experts-but not others-rise to promi
収録内容
- Introduction-On what Grounds? How Same-Sex Marriage Experts Establish Power in Their Countries
- According to Authorities : Expertise in the Media
- The Floor is Yours : Expertise in Courts and Legislatures
- For the Record : Becoming and Creating Experts
- From Scratch : Experts Work With What They've Got
- Ties that Bind : How Experts Connect with Lawmakers
- To Have and to Hold : Expert Capital as A Scarce Resource
- Conclusion-Authoritative Knowledge, Authorizing Families