Tournament: Long Beach | Round: 1 | Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Laila McClay
CONTENTION 1: ANTI-POWER AGAINST POWER

Under the guise of economic engagement with Mexico the people of Chiapas have become invisible and are uncounted. This allows for people in Chiapas to suffer endless exploitation and be murdered in the name of economic growth and security.
Schulz 98 (Markus, Professor of Sociology at the New School, “Collective Action across Borders: Opportunity Structures, Network Capacities, and Communicative Praxis in the Age of Advanced Globalization”, Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 41, No. 3, (1998), pp. 587-616, JSTOR)SK

In the contemporary postmodern era (Harvey 1990; Lyotard 1984; Garcia Canclini 1990; Burbach 1994), global capitalism and international politics have integrated the world in a new way...NAFTA exposes them to North American dumping prices (e.g. for corn) with which they cannot compete (Harvey 1994; Nigh 1994; Saxe-Fernandez 1994).

Economic engagement is rooted in the desire to maintain police order control over the uncounted. This management of capital contracts the uncounted into subordinate categories to maintain their inferiority.
Ranciere 98 (Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy, “Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy”, Page 113)                                                                                                                                                                          

The legitimacy of state power is thereby reinforced by the very affirmation of its impotence...a power that internalizes the identity of the great power of enterprising and contracting individuals and groups with the powerlessness of the demos as a political force.

This practice of intervention on the behalf of the rights of the Other produces an irresolvable opposition between Good and Evil than sanitizes the violence of the West because it’s done in the name of ethics – without fracturing this model of action politics becomes impossible
Ranciere 04 (Jacques, French Philosopher, “Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man?”, South Atlantic Quarterly, 103.2/3, 2004, 297-310, CL)

"The Rights of the Other" is the title of an essay written by Jean-François Lyotard, originally a paper given within the auspices of the Oxford Lectures on the Rights of Man, organized in 1993 by Amnesty International...I think that we had rather leave the ontological destiny of the human animal aside if we want to understand who is the subject of the Rights of Man and to rethink politics today, even if out of its very lack.

This myth of American virtue has resulted in the formulation of freedom-as-gift – the Western desire to liberate the world and purify it of its evils is a violent psychosis that turns the entire world into a warzone
Rogers 05 (Juliet Rogers, University of Melbourne Law School, 2005.  “Unquestionable Freedom in a Psychotic West,” Law, Culture and the Humanities, 1)

This article was inspired by several encounters I have had with the representation of "freedom," as if freedom is a thing-in-itself...I will extrapolate as precisely the psychotic condition of West in the contemporary West.

ADVOCACY

THUS WE AFFIRM TODOS SOMOS MARCOS. (WE ARE ALL MARCOS)

CONTENTION 2: WE WANT A WORLD WHERE MANY WORLDS FIT

¡Ya basta! Enough is enough. The time for the revolution is now. We must take on the stance of the Zapatistas to rupture the exclusion in current discourses. Our dis-identification with the concept of economic engagement in favor of creating a space in which the people of Chiapas and the other uncounted can render their claims to politics intelligible. ¡Queremos Un Mundo Donde Quepan Muchos Mundos!
Tormey 06 (Simon, Political Theorist based in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, “‘Not in my Name’: Deleuze, Zapatismo and the Critique of Representation”, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 59 No. 1, 2006)SK

One of the reasons, it seems, for the loose-limbed ‘anarchic’ nature of the CCRIs is the shared perception of the impossibility of generating representational structures even on a delegated basis—a point that in turn echoes Deleuze’s critique of identity...t is ‘dignity’ and ‘respect’ for the singular voice that animates this struggle against representation, not a desire to fulfill the historical or foreordained destiny to which all voices are or will be subject.

Against the promise of the economic engagement we must state the impossible. We are all German Jews. We are all Maquiladoras Workers. Todos Somos Marcos. We are all Marcos. We must dis-identify with ourselves and the subjects of a wrong to break apart the police logic that puts those wronged in their proper place.
Ranciere 98 (Jacques, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School ,Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy Pg 126)

The transformation of the democratic stage into a humanitarian stage may be illustrated by the impossibility of any mode of enunciation...by asserting the impossibility of presenting the victim of the crime against humanity and of providing a sufficient reason why the executioner would have perpetrated it. 

This dis-identification is a springboard for the creation of dissensus that politicizes the gap between the West’s construction of politics and the claims to politics of those who are denied the right to have their politics. The aff is a starting point for reframing the global discussion of politics.
Ranciere 04 (Jacques, French philosopher, “Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man?”, South Atlantic Quarterly, 103.2/3, 2004, 297-310, CL)

If we want to get out of this ontological trap, we have to reset the question of the Rights of Man—more precisely, the question of their subject—which is the subject of politics as well...It does not mean the population of the poor; it means a supplementary part, an empty part that separates the political community from the count of the parts of the population.

Tournament: Long Beach | Round: Octas | Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Leah Clark, Nate Wong, Ian Beier
A2: BRUCKNER

Not acting is worse – squo approaches to politics of emancipation speaks puts words in subalterns mouth in name of liberation – justifies paternalism towards the Other
Spivak 99 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist and philosopher, “A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present”, pgs 254-255)SK

It is not surprising, therefore, that upon the empirical register of resitance-talk, Foucault articulates another corollary of the disavowal of the role of ideology in reproducing the social relations of production: an unquestioned valorization of the oppressed as subject, the “object being,”...We are witnessing this in our discipline daily as we see the postcolonial migrant become the norm, thus occluding the native once again. 

FRAMEWORK

Turning ourselves in is the only political act because it highlights the gap between the truth of our experiences in debate and the common sense ideology built around debating policy simulation – you should use the ballot to rupture the police order in debate
Schaap 11(Andrew, European Journal of Political Theory 10:22, “Enacting the Right to have Rights: Jacques Ranciere’s critique of Hannah Arendt”, 2011, CL)

Ranciêre describes this process of and#34;˜subjectivizationand#39; through which the subject of human rights emerges in an ingenious formulation...politics always involves the subjectivization of an agent who makes a claim to participate in an order in which it has no part.and#34;?

This model of imperial thinking toward Latin America creates the expectation that we will be greeted with open arms as liberators – but this is a self-delusion that stems from a Pax Metaphysica that seeks to domesticate and unify the world under the banner of Western culture and politics
Spanos 00(William V, Professor of English and Comp Lit @ Binghamton, America’s Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire pg 191-192)

What I have argued in this book about the relationship between philosophy and imperialism is that the euphoric annunciation of the end of history and the advent of...not simply of the Western nation-states but of entire Third World cultures.

Tournament: Long Beach | Round: 1 | Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Laila McClay
FRAMEWORK

Turning ourselves in is the only political act because it highlights the gap between the truth of our experiences in debate and the common sense ideology built around debating policy simulation – you should use the ballot to rupture the police order in debate
Schaap 11(Andrew, European Journal of Political Theory 10:22, “Enacting the Right to have Rights: Jacques Ranciere’s critique of Hannah Arendt”, 2011, CL)

Ranciêre describes this process of and#34;˜subjectivizationand#39; through which the subject of human rights emerges in an ingenious formulation...politics always involves the subjectivization of an agent who makes a claim to participate in an order in which it has no part.and#34;?

DEBATE COMMUNITY OPEN FORUM CP

The CP creates a false sense of free choice – those who refuse the gift of the negand#39;s version of politics become irrational, backwards members of the Third World who don’t know better and need us to teach them for their own good.
Ross 11 (Kristin Ross, Professor of Comparative Lit @ NYU and PhD from Yale, 2011, Democracy In What State, “Democracy for Sale”, Pgs. 82-84)

In June 2008 Ireland, the only country to hold a popular referendum on the European constitution, voted to reject it...it was best to leave such complex matters of governance up to the experts, the technocracy.

RIGHTS MALTHUS

The ballot functions to further the vertical organization of debate along an axis of teleological value – if the ballot is a tool used to decide what knowledge counts the only option is to err toward dissensus – their alt allows squo politics overdetermined by human rights to coopt the object or being’s resistance
Chambers 11 (Samuel, John Hopkins University, European Journal of Political Theory, “Jacques Ranciere and the Problem of Pure Politics”, CL)

Ranciêre immediately clarifies his conception of police by showing that, while it is related to the idea of uniformed officers riding in patrol cars...˜what are your normative grounds?and#39;; and#34;˜what positive foundation for actual politics does this definition provide?and#39; etc.

ANTHROPOCENTRISM KRITIK

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)

For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

The 1AC is always-already a politicization of the anthropocentric thinking that lies at the heart of political philosophy – our distinction lies in the concept of the “literary animal”
Schaap 11 (Andrew, European Journal of Political Theory 10:22, “Enacting the Right to have Rights: Jacques Ranciere’s critique of Hannah Arendt”, 2011, CL)

In Ranciêreand#39;s terms, the entity of the sans papiers is the part that has no part within the political community...˜has a positive content that is the dismissal of any difference between those who and#34;liveand#34;? in such or such sphere of existence, between those who are or are not qualified for political lifeand#39;.88

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hunter AN | Judge: Teja Vepa
T - Economic Engagement

WM – Zapatista practices and traditions are economic engagement
Khokhar 13 (Tanya, Tanya Khokhar is a program analyst at the Ford Foundation in New York City. She is a 2012 graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she earned a master’s degree in international affairs, specializing in economic and political development, “Zapatista Development: Local Empowerment and the Curse of Top-Down Economics in Chiapas, Mexico”, Harvard Kennedy School's Public Policy Journal, May 2, 2013, http://harvardkennedyschoolreview.com/zapatista-development-local-empowerment-and-the-curse-of-top-down-economics-in-chiapas-mexico/)//SK
What has emerged in the heart of Zapatista communities are alternative and autonomous forms of political and economic engagement...Such alternative models offer engaging platforms for local empowerment and collective action.

CI – EE is academic analysis of economic areas
Bond and Paterson 05 (Ross and Lindsay, Ross Bond is a lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, Lindsay Paterson is a professor of educational policy at the University of Edinburgh, “Coming down from the ivory tower? Academics’ civic and economic engagement with the community”, September 2005)
We now turn our attention to a more specific form of interaction with the nonacademic community: economic engagement...we will also consider beliefs about the extent to which they should have economic relevance.

China CP

Zapatistas will say no – be skeptical of 1NC solvency advocate – it is assuming to speak on behalf of Zapatistas by objectifying them – unconditional engagement only way to solve – China is still neolib – cheapest labor for capitalism proves
Mentinis 06 (Mihalis, researcher in the discourse unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, “Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and what it means for Radical Politics”, First published 2006 by Pluto Press, page 35)SK
Key concepts in the Zapatista discourse such as ‘democracy’ and ‘equality’ demonstrate the attempt to construct a new ethico-political space...unity, but rather by points of agreement of a variety of social relations, and aims to confront the hegemonic unity of the Mexican state-party.

The CP creates a false sense of free choice – those who refuse the gift of democratic development become irrational, backwards members of the Third World who don’t know better and need us to teach them for their own good.
Ross 11 (Kristin Ross, Professor of Comparative Lit @ NYU and PhD from Yale, 2011, Democracy In What State, “Democracy for Sale”, Pgs. 82-84)
In June 2008 Ireland, the only country to hold a popular referendum on the European constitution, voted to reject it...It was purposefully drafted, in other words, to communicate to voters through its very form that it was best to leave such complex matters of governance up to the experts, the technocracy.

Colonialism DA

Aff link turns the DA – using human rights as a justification for liberating the ‘oppressed third world' consolidates U.S hyper masculinity, resulting in economic devastation, environmental destruction and extraction, and indiscriminate massacres.
Mohanty 06 (Chandra Talpade, She is the women's studies department chair and professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Sociology, and the Cultural Foundations of Education and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, “US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent”, Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09663690600571209)//SK
A number of scholars including Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (2004) conclude that since the last decades of the twentieth century, the US rules through the mechanisms of ‘informal empire’...Capitalist imperialism is now militarist imperialism. Capitalist globalization is militarized globalization. 

Speaking for Others K

Not speaking is worse – squo approaches to politics of emancipation speaks puts words in subalterns mouth in name of liberation – justifies paternalism towards the Other
Spivak 99 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist and philosopher, “A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present”, pgs 254-255)SK
It is not surprising, therefore, that upon the empirical register of resitance-talk, Foucault articulates another corollary of the disavowal of the role of ideology in reproducing the social relations of production: an unquestioned valorization of the oppressed as subject, the “object being,”...We are witnessing this in our discipline daily as we see the postcolonial migrant become the norm, thus occluding the native once again. 

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)
For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

Tournament: Bronx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Evelyn Buse
CASE 

was just extensions of 1AC cards

FRAMEWORK

Turning ourselves in is the only political act because it highlights the gap between the truth of our experiences in debate and the common sense ideology built around debating policy simulation – you should use the ballot to rupture the police order in debate
Schaap 11(Andrew, European Journal of Political Theory 10:22, “Enacting the Right to have Rights: Jacques Ranciere’s critique of Hannah Arendt”, 2011, CL)

Ranciêre describes this process of and#34;˜subjectivizationand#39; through which the subject of human rights emerges in an ingenious formulation...politics always involves the subjectivization of an agent who makes a claim to participate in an order in which it has no part.and#34;?

Engaging with Zapatistas is T
Khokhar 13 (Tanya, Tanya Khokhar is a program analyst at the Ford Foundation in New York City. She is a 2012 graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she earned a master’s degree in international affairs, specializing in economic and political development, “Zapatista Development: Local Empowerment and the Curse of Top-Down Economics in Chiapas, Mexico”, Harvard Kennedy School's Public Policy Journal, May 2, 2013, http://harvardkennedyschoolreview.com/zapatista-development-local-empowerment-and-the-curse-of-top-down-economics-in-chiapas-mexico/)//SK

What has emerged in the heart of Zapatista communities are alternative and autonomous forms of political and economic engagement, reflecting local cultural practices and traditions rather than top-down development concerns...Such alternative models offer engaging platforms for local empowerment and collective action.

INVISIBILITY K

Not acting is worse – squo approaches to politics of emancipation speaks puts words in subalterns mouth in name of liberation – justifies paternalism towards the Other
Spivak 99 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist and philosopher, “A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present”, pgs 254-255)SK

It is not surprising, therefore, that upon the empirical register of resitance-talk, Foucault articulates another corollary of the disavowal of the role of ideology in reproducing the social relations of production: an unquestioned valorization of the oppressed as subject, the “object being,”...We are witnessing this in our discipline daily as we see the postcolonial migrant become the norm, thus occluding the native once again. 

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)

For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

The ballot functions to further the vertical organization of debate along an axis of teleological value – if the ballot is a tool used to decide what knowledge counts the only option is to err toward dissensus – their alt allows squo politics overdetermined by human rights to coopt the object or being’s resistance
Chambers 11 (Samuel, John Hopkins University, European Journal of Political Theory, “Jacques Ranciere and the Problem of Pure Politics”, CL)

Ranciêre immediately clarifies his conception of police by showing that, while it is related to the idea of uniformed officers riding in patrol cars...˜what are your normative grounds?and#39;; and#34;˜what positive foundation for actual politics does this definition provide?and#39; etc.

Tournament: Bronx | Round: 4 | Opponent: Georgetown Day CT | Judge: Zac Ryan
CASE

Framing issue- The 1AC intervention into symbolic ontology is a prerequisite to formation of any advocacy of resistance and proves your root cause arguments are wrong.
Burke 07 Anthony, Professor of Politics and International Relations in the University of New South Wales , “Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence, and Reason”, Theory and Event, vol. 10.2
My argument here, whilst normatively sympathetic to Kant's moral demand for the eventual abolition of war, militates against excessive optimism.86 Even as I am arguing that war is not an enduring historical or anthropological feature...by being aware of its presence and weight and activating a very different concept of existence, security and action. 

VISUALS COUNTER ADVOCACY

Community Reform already presupposed with and end point in mind ends up diametrically opposed to its original intentions because those who implement policy changes differ from those who envision it – dissensus is only way to allow continual disagreement
Cohen 85 (Stanley professor at the institute of criminology at Hebrew university, Visions of Social Control, p. 92-3)
The well-intentioned plans of reformers (conscience) are systematically transformed by the obdurate nature of social reality. The real block lies at the organizational level...This is were things start going wrong: goals are displaced, manifest functions give way to latent functions, vested interests operate. As Eliot told us, ‘Between the idea and the reality, Between the notion and the act, Falls the Shadow.’

BAUDRILLARD KRTIK

The ballot functions to further the vertical organization of debate along an axis of teleological value – if the ballot is a tool used to decide what knowledge counts the only option is to err toward dissensus – their alt allows squo politics overdetermined by human rights to coopt the object or being’s resistance
Chambers 11 (Samuel, John Hopkins University, European Journal of Political Theory, “Jacques Ranciere and the Problem of Pure Politics”, CL)
Ranciêre immediately clarifies his conception of police by showing that, while it is related to the idea of uniformed officers riding in patrol cars...˜what are your normative grounds?and#39;; and#34;˜what positive foundation for actual politics does this definition provide?and#39; etc.

MANN KRITIK

K is squo approach to politics of emancipation that speaks puts words in subalterns mouth in name of liberation – justifies paternalism towards the Other
Spivak 99 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist and philosopher, “A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present”, pgs 254-255)SK
It is not surprising, therefore, that upon the empirical register of resitance-talk, Foucault articulates another corollary of the disavowal of the role of ideology in reproducing the social relations of production...can help consolidate the international division of labor by making one model of “concrete experience” the model. We are witnessing this in our discipline daily as we see the postcolonial migrant become the norm, thus occluding the native once again. 

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)
For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

The criticism is akin to the project of political philosophy itself – it sets the goal of theorization above the act of politics itself – that subordinates all of thought to the telos of the philosopher
Chambers 11(Samuel, John Hopkins University, European Journal of Political Theory, “Jacques Ranciere and the Problem of Pure Politics”, CL)
Over the past decade, jacques Ranciêre's writings have increasingly provoked and inspired political theorists who wish to avoid both the abstraction of so-called normative theories...In Ranciêrean language, we are always subject to an "˜excess of words' that both makes politics possible and prevents its closure.

Tournament: Long Beach | Round: 4 | Opponent: Claremont ZG | Judge: Elan Goldman
FRAMEWORK

Turning ourselves in is the only political act because it highlights the gap between the truth of our experiences in debate and the common sense ideology built around debating policy simulation – you should use the ballot to rupture the police order in debate
Schaap 11(Andrew, European Journal of Political Theory 10:22, “Enacting the Right to have Rights: Jacques Ranciere’s critique of Hannah Arendt”, 2011, CL)

Ranciêre describes this process of and#34;˜subjectivizationand#39; through which the subject of human rights emerges in an ingenious formulation...politics always involves the subjectivization of an agent who makes a claim to participate in an order in which it has no part.and#34;?

T-MEXICO

Engaging with Zapatistas is T
Khokhar 13 (Tanya, Tanya Khokhar is a program analyst at the Ford Foundation in New York City. She is a 2012 graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she earned a master’s degree in international affairs, specializing in economic and political development, “Zapatista Development: Local Empowerment and the Curse of Top-Down Economics in Chiapas, Mexico”, Harvard Kennedy School's Public Policy Journal, May 2, 2013, http://harvardkennedyschoolreview.com/zapatista-development-local-empowerment-and-the-curse-of-top-down-economics-in-chiapas-mexico/)//SK

What has emerged in the heart of Zapatista communities are alternative and autonomous forms of political and economic engagement, reflecting local cultural practices and traditions rather than top-down development concerns...Such alternative models offer engaging platforms for local empowerment and collective action.

BADIOU K

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)

For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

Not acting is worse – squo approaches to politics of emancipation speaks puts words in subalterns mouth in name of liberation – justifies paternalism towards the Other
Spivak 99 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist and philosopher, “A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present”, pgs 254-255)SK

It is not surprising, therefore, that upon the empirical register of resitance-talk, Foucault articulates another corollary of the disavowal of the role of ideology in reproducing the social relations of production: an unquestioned valorization of the oppressed as subject, the “object being,”...We are witnessing this in our discipline daily as we see the postcolonial migrant become the norm, thus occluding the native once again. 

Link turn – squo creates a false sense of free choice – those who refuse the gift of democratic development become irrational, backwards members of the Third World who don’t know better and need us to teach them for their own good.
Ross 11 (Kristin Ross, Professor of Comparative Lit @ NYU and PhD from Yale, 2011, Democracy In What State, “Democracy for Sale”, Pgs. 82-84)

n June 2008 Ireland, the only country to hold a popular referendum on the European constitution, voted to reject it...it was best to leave such complex matters of governance up to the experts, the technocracy.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 4 | Opponent: CK McClatchy HB | Judge: Brock Hanson
T-Should

Our aff doesn’t explode limits – your definition of engagement is just a reflection of the universal model deemed to be good by financial elites – impacted out by 1AC Rogers evidence b/c form of engagement they promote justifies intervention in name of giving it to the Other
AFTA 98 (Alternatives for the Americas, second draft of a document initially prepared for the April 1998 Peoples' Summit of the Americas-a historic gathering of activists determined to change the prevailing approach to trade and investment policy in the Western Hemisphere, “Building a People's Hemispheric Agreement”, http://www.iatp.org/files/Alternatives_for_the_Americas_Building_a_Peopl.htm)
Neo-liberalism entails the imposition of a set of rules that govern not only the economy but also the social fabric of our societies...given to the rights of indigenous communities and peoples, and mechanisms put in place to eliminate all forms of discrimination and the oppression of women.

Case

Zapatista practices are successful and create change - your author
Khokhar 13 (Tanya, Tanya Khokhar is a program analyst at the Ford Foundation in New York City. She is a 2012 graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she earned a master’s degree in international affairs, specializing in economic and political development, “Zapatista Development: Local Empowerment and the Curse of Top-Down Economics in Chiapas, Mexico”, Harvard Kennedy School's Public Policy Journal, May 2, 2013, http://harvardkennedyschoolreview.com/zapatista-development-local-empowerment-and-the-curse-of-top-down-economics-in-chiapas-mexico/)//SK
What has emerged in the heart of Zapatista communities are alternative and autonomous forms of political and economic engagement...Such alternative models offer engaging platforms for local empowerment and collective action.

Mao (the Rev "DA")

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)
For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

No cooption links - Zapatistas will say no – be skeptical of 1NC evidence – it is assuming to speak on behalf of Zapatistas by objectifying them – affs unconditional engagement solves
Mentinis 06 (Mihalis, researcher in the discourse unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, “Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and what it means for Radical Politics”, First published 2006 by Pluto Press, page 35)SK
Key concepts in the Zapatista discourse such as ‘democracy’ and ‘equality’ demonstrate the attempt to construct a new ethico-political space...unity, but rather by points of agreement of a variety of social relations, and aims to confront the hegemonic unity of the Mexican state-party.

The ballot functions to further the vertical organization of debate along an axis of teleological value – if the ballot is a tool used to decide what knowledge counts the only option is to err toward dissensus – their alt allows squo politics overdetermined by human rights to coopt the object or being’s resistance
Chambers 11 (Samuel, John Hopkins University, European Journal of Political Theory, “Jacques Ranciere and the Problem of Pure Politics”, CL)
Ranciêre immediately clarifies his conception of police by showing that, while it is related to the idea of uniformed officers riding in patrol cars...˜what are your normative grounds?and#39;; and#34;˜what positive foundation for actual politics does this definition provide?and#39; etc.

Even if they win solvency for integration/inclusion it gets coopted because inclusion and reformism will always create forced assimilation or new exclusions based upon new lines
Williams 02 (Gareth, Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan, “The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America”, Duke University Press, Copyright 2002, pages 3-6)SK
Popular integration was deemed to be fundamental for the consolidation of state hegemony, for the formation of disciplined national industrial labor forces...keep the lid on social tensions and on the increasing possibility of popular insurrection and revolution.

Tournament: Bronx | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wilson JS | Judge: Hannah Stafford
CASE

was just extensions of 1AC evidence

FW

Turning ourselves in is the only political act because it highlights the gap between the truth of our experiences in debate and the common sense ideology built around debating policy simulation – you should use the ballot to rupture the police order in debate
Schaap 11(Andrew, European Journal of Political Theory 10:22, “Enacting the Right to have Rights: Jacques Ranciere’s critique of Hannah Arendt”, 2011, CL)
Ranciêre describes this process of and#34;˜subjectivizationand#39; through which the subject of human rights emerges in an ingenious formulation...politics always involves the subjectivization of an agent who makes a claim to participate in an order in which it has no part.and#34;?

Engaging with Zapatistas is T
Khokhar 13 (Tanya, Tanya Khokhar is a program analyst at the Ford Foundation in New York City. She is a 2012 graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she earned a master’s degree in international affairs, specializing in economic and political development, “Zapatista Development: Local Empowerment and the Curse of Top-Down Economics in Chiapas, Mexico”, Harvard Kennedy School's Public Policy Journal, May 2, 2013, http://harvardkennedyschoolreview.com/zapatista-development-local-empowerment-and-the-curse-of-top-down-economics-in-chiapas-mexico/)//SK
What has emerged in the heart of Zapatista communities are alternative and autonomous forms of political and economic engagement, reflecting local cultural practices and traditions rather than top-down development concerns...Such alternative models offer engaging platforms for local empowerment and collective action.

SAN ANDREAS ACCORDS CONDITIONS COUNTERPLAN

The CP creates a false sense of free choice – those who refuse the gift of democratic development become irrational, backwards members of the Third World who don’t know better and need us to teach them for their own good.
Ross 11 (Kristin Ross, Professor of Comparative Lit @ NYU and PhD from Yale, 2011, Democracy In What State, “Democracy for Sale”, Pgs. 82-84)
In June 2008 Ireland, the only country to hold a popular referendum on the European constitution, voted to reject it. One of the principal authors of the treaty...It was purposefully drafted, in other words, to communicate to voters through its very form that it was best to leave such complex matters of governance up to the experts, the technocracy.

BALLOT COMMODIFICATION KRITIK

Not acting is worse – squo approaches to politics of emancipation speaks puts words in subalterns mouth in name of liberation – justifies paternalism towards the Other
Spivak 99 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist and philosopher, “A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present”, pgs 254-255)SK
It is not surprising, therefore, that upon the empirical register of resitance-talk, Foucault articulates another corollary of the disavowal of the role of ideology in reproducing the social relations of production: an unquestioned valorization of the oppressed as subject, the “object being,”...We are witnessing this in our discipline daily as we see the postcolonial migrant become the norm, thus occluding the native once again. 

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)
For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

The ballot functions to further the vertical organization of debate along an axis of teleological value – if the ballot is a tool used to decide what knowledge counts the only option is to err toward dissensus – their alt allows squo politics overdetermined by human rights to coopt the object or being’s resistance
Chambers 11 (Samuel, John Hopkins University, European Journal of Political Theory, “Jacques Ranciere and the Problem of Pure Politics”, CL)
Ranciêre immediately clarifies his conception of police by showing that, while it is related to the idea of uniformed officers riding in patrol cars...˜what are your normative grounds?and#39;; and#34;˜what positive foundation for actual politics does this definition provide?and#39; etc.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 5 | Opponent: St Vincent HL | Judge: Ajay Vishwanath
Speaking for Others K

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)
For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

Visibility based integration/inclusion gets coopted – the subversiveness of the Zapatistas is better because it allows us to internally implode power structures because our resistance will be unintelligible to the state which means they cant coopt it
Harney and Moten 13 Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and a co-founder of the School for Study and Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Moden Poetry, “Politics Surrounded,” The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pg. 29
Introducing this labor upon labor, and providing the space for its de- velopment, creates risks. Like the colonial police force recruited un- wittingly from guerrilla neighborhoods...counterinsurgency, the refounding terrorism of law, coming for the discredited, coming for those who refuse to write off or write up the undercommons.

Chow/Ballot Commodification K

No cooption links - Zapatistas will say no – be skeptical of 1NC evidence – it is assuming to speak on behalf of Zapatistas by objectifying them – affs unconditional engagement solves
Mentinis 06 (Mihalis, researcher in the discourse unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, “Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and what it means for Radical Politics”, First published 2006 by Pluto Press, page 35)SK
Key concepts in the Zapatista discourse such as ‘democracy’ and ‘equality’ demonstrate the attempt to construct a new ethico-political space...unity, but rather by points of agreement of a variety of social relations, and aims to confront the hegemonic unity of the Mexican state-party.

The ballot functions to further the vertical organization of debate along an axis of teleological value – if the ballot is a tool used to decide what knowledge counts the only option is to err toward dissensus – their alt allows squo politics overdetermined by human rights to coopt the object or being’s resistance
Chambers 11 (Samuel, John Hopkins University, European Journal of Political Theory, “Jacques Ranciere and the Problem of Pure Politics”, CL)
Ranciêre immediately clarifies his conception of police by showing that, while it is related to the idea of uniformed officers riding in patrol cars...˜what are your normative grounds?and#39;; and#34;˜what positive foundation for actual politics does this definition provide?and#39; etc.

Privilege K

Not acting is worse – squo approaches to politics of emancipation speaks puts words in subalterns mouth in name of liberation – justifies paternalism towards the Other
Spivak 99 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary theorist and philosopher, “A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present”, pgs 254-255)SK
It is not surprising, therefore, that upon the empirical register of resitance-talk, Foucault articulates another corollary of the disavowal of the role of ideology in reproducing the social relations of production: an unquestioned valorization of the oppressed as subject, the “object being,”...We are witnessing this in our discipline daily as we see the postcolonial migrant become the norm, thus occluding the native once again.

Tournament: Long Beach | Round: 6 | Opponent: St Vincent CH | Judge: Lee Thach
FRAMEWORK

Turning ourselves in is the only political act because it highlights the gap between the truth of our experiences in debate and the common sense ideology built around debating policy simulation – you should use the ballot to rupture the police order in debate
Schaap 11(Andrew, European Journal of Political Theory 10:22, “Enacting the Right to have Rights: Jacques Ranciere’s critique of Hannah Arendt”, 2011, CL)

Ranciêre describes this process of and#34;˜subjectivizationand#39; through which the subject of human rights emerges in an ingenious formulation...politics always involves the subjectivization of an agent who makes a claim to participate in an order in which it has no part.and#34;?

T-MEXICO

Engaging with Zapatistas is T
Khokhar 13 (Tanya, Tanya Khokhar is a program analyst at the Ford Foundation in New York City. She is a 2012 graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she earned a master’s degree in international affairs, specializing in economic and political development, “Zapatista Development: Local Empowerment and the Curse of Top-Down Economics in Chiapas, Mexico”, Harvard Kennedy School's Public Policy Journal, May 2, 2013, http://harvardkennedyschoolreview.com/zapatista-development-local-empowerment-and-the-curse-of-top-down-economics-in-chiapas-mexico/)//SK

What has emerged in the heart of Zapatista communities are alternative and autonomous forms of political and economic engagement, reflecting local cultural practices and traditions rather than top-down development concerns...Such alternative models offer engaging platforms for local empowerment and collective action.

FOUCAULT KRITIK

Alt can’t solve - The critique’s refusal to evacuate the space of status quo human rights discourse ensures that the emergence of new political possibilities will always remain tied to the ideology of Western imperialism.
Hemel 08 (Ernst Van Den Hemel, “Included But Not Belonging, Badiou and Ranciere on Human Rights”, Krisis 2008, Issue 3, CL)

For Badiou, the project of universal human rights is inherently incapable of accommodating truth...In slightly more formal terms, the presence of the sans papiers functions as an evental site, demanding us to search for a truth that can incorporate the revealed impossibility.

The ballot functions to further the vertical organization of debate along an axis of teleological value – if the ballot is a tool used to decide what knowledge counts the only option is to err toward dissensus – their alt allows squo politics overdetermined by human rights to coopt the object or being’s resistance
Chambers 11 (Samuel, John Hopkins University, European Journal of Political Theory, “Jacques Ranciere and the Problem of Pure Politics”, CL)

Ranciêre immediately clarifies his conception of police by showing that, while it is related to the idea of uniformed officers riding in patrol cars...˜what are your normative grounds?and#39;; and#34;˜what positive foundation for actual politics does this definition provide?and#39; etc.

The politics of human rights reduce the essence and experience of life to its mere biological components – the ideal bearer of human rights for the West is the starving Rwandan child plastered on a poster but already long dead – only the affirmative can reinvigorate out understanding of politics and life.
Whyte 09(Jessica, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, “Particular Rights and Absolute Wrongs: Giorgio Agamben on Life and Politics”, 3.28.9, CL)

Given this claim it is unsurprising that Agamben’s thought is often dismissed as overly pessimistic, especially as, in his view...firstly, their respective accounts of the distinction between life and politics; and secondly, their differing accounts of the political subject.

Tournament: Contact Information | Round: 1 | Opponent: Debate Community | Judge: Varies
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