Tournament: NYSDCA State Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: ALL | Judge: ANY
Contention 1: Hegemony
Latin American economic policy is marked by dependency on capitalism - and trapped as a colony for western extractavists for resources and labor.
Adrián Sotelo VALENCIA Center of Latin American Studies @ National Autonomous University of Mexico, 25 March 2013, “Latin America: Dependency and Super-Exploitation” Critical Sociology,
Latin America...economic policy
You have an ethical obligation to object to current economic practice in Latin American - it makes poverty, environmental destruction and militarism inevitable.
Makwana 6 (Rajesh, STWR, 23rd November 06, HYPERLINK "http://www.stwr.org/globalization/neoliberalism-and-economic-globalization.html" http://www.stwr.org/globalization/neoliberalism-and-economic-globalization.html , ZBurdette)
Securing resources and economic dominance...has caused job loss, undermined labour rights, privatized essential services, increased inequality and caused environmental destruction
Hegemonic economic thought makes ethics impossible - the idea of a normalized economy is a structuralized violence through economic colonization - that makes extinction inevitable
Ethan Lloyd MILLER @ University of Massachusetts, May 2011, “RETHINKING ECONOMY FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ONTOLOGY, PERFORMATIVITY AND ENABLING FRAMEWORKS FOR PARTICIPATORY VISION AND ACTION”, ctc - Conventional RED = conventional regional economic development - the “trinity”/”triple-bottom-line” is the categorization of everything into economics, society, and nature - positions held by conventional RED are in italics
the beings and relationships constituting society and nature are positioned...undermines our own conditions of existence and secures the ongoing violence of colonization
Transition to a more sustainable economic system is impossible absent an exploration of different economic practices that capitalism renders invisible. Any attempt to remove oneself from capitalism will fail absent the affirmative's breaking down of the idea that capitalism is hegemonic in the first place.
George DEMARTINO - Professor of international economics @ U of Denver, 2013, Work in Progress posted, “Ethical Economic Engagement in a World Beyond Control”, Rethinking Marxism)rainy ctc
only capitalism occupies a privileged...non-capitalist economic practices.
Contention Two is Bienvenidos to the HRC
The HRC project constitutes bringing researchers and activists to local populations in order to educate them and instruct them to differentiate the economy -
JK GIBSON-GRAHAM, “A feminist project of belonging for the Anthropocene”, 2010, rainy ctc
a “hybrid research collective... mapping, teams of hybrid researchers would form collective learning assemblages that would potentially become open to belonging in new ways.
Some economic forms the HRC would take are: alternative paid and reciprocal labor, fair trade, alternative currencies and worker cooperatives. Our recognition of different economic forms allows us to approach daily life ethically.
Gibson-Graham and Roelvink 09 J. K. Gibson-Graham; Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Gerda Roelvink Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney, “An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene"BMitch
A powerful image that has emerged...processes of co-constitution are producing a new econo-sociality
Our local approach spills over to global economic experimentation
Healy 08 Stephen Healy Worcester State College, “Alternative Economies” HYPERLINK "http://www.communityeconomies.org/site/assets/media/stephenhealy/Alternative-Economies.pdf" http://www.communityeconomies.org/site/assets/media/stephenhealy/Alternative-Economies.pdf MarchBMitch
a hierarchically ordered space effectively affirms the dominance of ...be conducted on a global scale
ADVOCACY
Rachel and I advocate that the resolution be interrogated utilizing the methodology of the hybrid research collective program. This analysis is the key to affirm the values inherent in the concept of economic engagement with Latin America.
Contention Three is Debate and Policy
The purpose of debate is to create conditions by which people may gain a better future away from the status quo. It is in this way that the judge has the moral imperative to support the rejection of Capitalism in its form in Latin America and by using our advocacy of the HRC to understand alternative economics is how we begin towards true change.
Our performative discourse of the 1AC produces new knowledge and breaks down capitalism.
Miller 11 (Ethan Lloyd Miller-- masters of science @ University of Massachusetts Amherst RETHINKING ECONOMY FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ONTOLOGY, PERFORMATIVITY AND ENABLING FRAMEWORKS FOR PARTICIPATORY VISION AND ACTION HYPERLINK "http://www.communityeconomies.org/site/assets/media/Ethan_Miller/Miller_RethinkingEconomy_MSThesis-2011.pdf" http://www.communityeconomies.org/site/assets/media/Ethan_Miller/Miller_RethinkingEconomy_MSThesis-2011.pdf May 2011rainy)
A performative approach to discourse...make social realities and social worlds.
Our own personal exploration are key for social change.
Dennis Sullivan, (Criminal Justice Scholar, THE MASK OF LOVE, 1980)
All moral culture springs solely and immediately from the inner life of the soul and can only be stimulated in human nature...the social conditions in which this work is possible
Affirming alternative moral visions allows change to occur.
Mark Johnson, (Chair of Philosophy Department, Sill, MORAL IMAGINATION, 1993)
forms of imaginative rationality are, in fact, what make human objectivity possible. They are what permit us to take up various perspectives as a way of criticizing any given position...Such acts of imagination are what allow us to see that and how things might be different and better
Without the aff, debate is dominated by consultants not policymakers: incapable of advocating social change. Only the aff can create responsible methodology which is an independent reason to vote aff.
MASON ’13 (Arthur, Assistant Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences @ Arizona State U., “Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry” Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies, 2013, pp. 126-129)
highlight the role of independent experts... outside this audience.
Our advocacy provides a framework for engagement, not fixed policy solutions which are doomed to remaining in current dogma. Only imaginative experimentation is able to resist commodification.
Gibson-Graham 06 J. K. Gibson-Graham, University of Minnesota A Post-Capitalist Politics p. 87BMitch
discourse of the community economy has the capacity to...focus on the multiple possibilities that emerge from the inessential commonality of negotiating our own implication in the existence of others
Prefer our framework, it allows for an actual change in policy debate to create actual policy debate and any other framework which supports the status quo or rejecting capitalism without the HRC is doomed and co-opted by the Bourgeoisie.
Frameworks that attempt to maintain policy debate of the status quo maintains the hegemonic position of Capitalism
Zizek 2011 Slavoj, one of the girls standing in the line for the bathroom that Pharrell was talking about, also, y’know, their author, “Democracy is the Enemy,” London Review of Books
The assumption is that the fight against these excesses should take place in the familiar liberal...a bourgeois-state apparatus that is designed to ensure the undisturbed functioning of capitalist reproduction