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	1	+==1AC ==
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	4	+===Top Level===
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	6	+
	7	+**====Nuclear power is a corporate sham – we are fed a narrative that presents it as the inevitable future because of its cost-efficiency – when in fact nuclear power is neither cost-effective nor safe – this fixation on profit is the root cause of environmental destruction====**
	8	+**Martin et. Al 84**
	9	+(The main authors are Jill Bowling, Brian Martin, Val Plumwood and Ian Watson, with important contributions from Ray Kent, Basil Schur and Rosemary Walters. Strategy against nuclear power http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/86sa.html)
	10	+Why was the nuclear option taken? Nuclear power is not an automatic or inevitable
	11	+AND
	12	+oppose nuclear power effectively requires addressing the structures in which it is embedded.
	13	+
	14	+
	15	+====This rationalist paradigm strips individuals of genuine political choice – a neoliberal political paradigm is presented as the only option because it is supposedly the most cost-efficient one. This depoliticization of economic policy reduces politics to a choice between two managers of the same policy preferences that are immune to questioning.====
	16	+**Hay 06** ~~Colin, Professor of Political Analysis at University of Sheffield "The normalizing role of rationalist assumptions in the institutional embedding of neoliberalism" Tandf Online 21 Aug 2006~~ AT
	17	+The 'disaffection' of previously engaged citizens from the democratic process is a key theme
	18	+AND
	19	+neoliberalism (at least in Britain) on stylized rationalist assumptions. Accordingly,
	20	+
	21	+
	22	+===Impact===
	23	+
	24	+
	25	+====Neolib itself is not intrinsically bad – but an ideological commitment to it that is seen as beyond question certainly is – clinging to this dying system results in civilization collapse and structural violence ====
	26	+**Bednarz 13 ~~(Dan, Sociologist, has worked in academic public health, Associate Director of the Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Pittsburgh, has lectured at the university level in business strategy, organizational studies, sociology, and policy analysis) "Power, Identity and Social Change as We Enter Degrowth" Health After Oil, August 12~~ AT**
	27	+Almost all contemporary governments are ignoring or misinterpreting economic contraction, resource scarcities and biophysical
	28	+AND
	29	+vested interests, and the implicit threats of surveillance and state sanctioned violence.
	30	+
	31	+
	32	+===Solvency===
	33	+
	34	+
	35	+====Thus, I advocate a repoliticization of economic policy that begins with a country-wide opposition and boycott to the production of nuclear power. ====
	36	+
	37	+
	38	+====Personal political action is key – this act of defiance affirms the power of individual choice in the face of market forces that attempt to quell personal agency ====
	39	+Robert V. **Kozinets and** Jay **Handelman** (19**98**) ,"Ensouling Consumption: a Netnographic Exploration of the Meaning of Boycotting Behavior", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 25, eds. Joseph W. Alba and J. Wesley Hutchinson, Provo, UT : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 475-480.
	40	+Boycotting as Morally Transforming Behavior A new dimension extending beyond boycotting's functional image as a
	41	+AND
	42	+on alt.punk.straight-edge, 02/09/1997
	43	+
	44	+
	45	+====And the aff is prior question, revealing our choice in the neoliberal paradigm and deconstructing its rationalist assumptions are a prerequisite to generating any solution====
	46	+**Hay 06** ~~Colin, Professor of Political Analysis at University of Sheffield "The normalizing role of rationalist assumptions in the institutional embedding of neoliberalism" Tandf Online 21 Aug 2006~~ AT
	47	+however depoliticized and normalized neoliberalism has become, it remains a political and economic choice
	48	+AND
	49	+of the re-animation of a worryingly disaffected and disengaged democratic culture.
	50	+
	51	+
	52	+===Framing===
	53	+
	54	+
	55	+====The Role of the judge is to vote for the debater that best deconstructs neoliberal norms. ====
	56	+
	57	+
	58	+====The role of the ballot is to endorse the approach that best challenges the normalization of neolib. The debate should focus not on the consequences of the aff advocacy, but on what ideology the advocacy affirms. You should vote aff not because a boycott of nuclear power causes a decrease in neoliberalism, but because a boycott represents an ideological challenge to neolib.====
	59	+
	60	+
	61	+====This is the only viable strategy to resist coorporatization – using the debate space to question the ideological foundations of neolib is necessary to challenge it====
	62	+Giroux, PhD, 2005
	63	+(Henry A., College Literature, Volume 32, No. 1, p. 10)
	64	+Such efforts must be understood as part of a broader attempt not only to collectively
	65	+AND
	66	+as the model for organizing all facets of everyday life (Henwood 2003).
	67	+
	68	+
	69	+====And this is preferable to policy education—Criticism comes first – acting as advisors to policy-makers prevents a true intellectual space====
	70	+**Steele, 10** – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas
	71	+(Brent, Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics pg 130-132, dml) ~~gender/ableist language modified with brackets~~
	72	+When facing these dire warnings regarding the manner in which academic-intellectuals are seduced
	73	+AND
	74	+a place fit for human habitation" (~~1964~~ 2006: 233).
	75	+
	76	+
	77	+====Refusal to question neoliberalism spills over to the real world—our refusal to question market norms imbues norms of fairness and education with neoconservative ideology====
	78	+**Giroux 4** (Henry, professor of Cultural Studies at McMaster University, "Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neo-liberalism: making the political more pedagogical" Policy Futures in Education, Volume 2, Number 3 and 4, 2004)
	79	+At this point in American history, neo-liberal capitalism is not simply too
	80	+AND
	81	+last 30 years, particularly under the ruthless administration of George W. Bush

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