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-The standard is minimizing structural violence. |
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-Structural violence causes oppression against particular groups to be invisible. Minimizing structural violence precludes all ethical evaluation. |
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-Winter and Leighton ‘07 (Deborah Du Nann Winter and Dana C. Leighton, professors of psychology,) “STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE, Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century”, Ohio State University, 2007 |
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-Direct violence is horrific, but its brutality usually gets our attention: we notice |
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-thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity. |
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-2) Any truth claim is epistemically suspect—there is always a higher order obligation in rejecting oppression so excluded voices can be incorporated into our epistemologies. |
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-Clifford and Burke ‘08 (Derek and Beverley), “Anti-Oppressive Ethics and Values in Social Work”, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/1403905568.pdf |
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-Our view of the nature of ethics admits the possibility of giving reasons, drawing |
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-other’, in the sense of one who is socially and culturally different. |
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-3) Evaluating issues of oppression comes before evaluations of abstract ethics. |
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-Matsuda ‘89 Mari, Associate Professor of Law @ the University of Hawaii, “When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method”, 11 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 7 1989 |
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-The multiple consciousness I urge lawyers to attain is not a random ability to see |
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-for these writers as they enter into mainstream debates about law and theory. |
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-4) Debate should deal with real-world consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression |
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-Curry ’14, (Dr. Tommy J. Curry), “The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century”, Victory Briefs, 2014 |
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-Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real |
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-used to currently justify the living wages in under our contemporary moral parameters. |
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-Plan Text: The United States federal government ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. |
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-The risk of nuclear production has been outsourced to marginalized communities and has become a symbol of systemic state domination. |
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-Chen 11, Michelle (Michelle Chen is Colorlines' Global Justice columnist. She is a regular contributor on labor issues at In These Times, as well as a member of the magazine's Board of Editors.) March 23, 2011 “The Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy” Colorlines http://www.colorlines.com/articles/radioactive-racism-behind-nuclear-energy SHSAM Bracketed for grammar and efficiency |
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-At every point in the nuclear production chain, the industry has sloughed a disproportionate |
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-to "effectively an 'up yours' response to the citizens of our country": |
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-Proximity to a nuclear plant marks bodies as risky and thus make them face disadvantages throughout society. |
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-Cousins et al., Elicia, Claire Karban, Fay Li, and Marianna Zapanta “Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk, Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience” Carleton College, Environmental Studies Comprehensive Project https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/ents/assets/Cousins_Karban_Li_Zapanta.pdf SHSAM |
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-One of the goals of the preceding section was to complicate the notion of “ |
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-recognize the vulnerabilities of disadvantaged groups and to minimize their exposure to harm. |
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-Nuclear power companies are able to control and manipulate local populations due to the systemic silencing of minoritarian voices by governmental organizations. |
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-Dixon 12, Bruce A. January 25th “Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff” The Grio http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/ SHSAM |
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-“The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) just approved construction permits for two new |
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-will not benefit Georgia residents, because it will be sold to Florida. |
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-US law has been structured so that indigenous communities are targeted as dumping grounds for nuclear waste. |
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-Endres 09, Danielle (Associate Professor, Communication, University of Utah Director, Communication Institute, University of Utah Affiliated Faculty, Environmental Humanities Grad, University of Utah Affiliated Faculty, Global Change and Sustainability Center, University of Utah Assistant Professor, Communication, University of Utah) March 1, 2009 “The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies SHSAM |
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-Before attending to the rhetorical nature of nuclear colonialism, it is important to emphasize |
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-people living near tailing piles at a high risk for lung cancer.10 |
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-Racialized and militarized policies are linked to environmental injustice – fighting one means we fight the other as well. |
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-Pellow 12, David Naguib, (Ph.D. Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair – University of Minnesota) February 2012, “Climate Disruption in the Global South and in African American Communities: Key Issues, Frameworks, and Possibilities for Climate Justice,” http://www.jointcenter.org/sites/default/files/upload/research/files/White_Paper_Climate_Disruption_final.pdf SHSAM |
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-Leaders from Indigenous and various global South communities have also drawn connections between climate disruption |
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-disruptive activities. Hydro-electric power is just one of many examples. |
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-The discursive implications of our policies outweigh the material implications they have – its what shapes the structures that create the material violence. |
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-Endres 09, Danielle (Associate Professor, Communication, University of Utah Director, Communication Institute, University of Utah Affiliated Faculty, Environmental Humanities Grad, University of Utah Affiliated Faculty, Global Change and Sustainability Center, University of Utah Assistant Professor, Communication, University of Utah) March 1, 2009 “The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies SHSAM Bracketed for efficiency |
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-Although the material implications of nuclear colonialism are undeniable, but it is |
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-and rhetorical strategies that invoke the interrelated discursive systems of colonialism and nuclearism. |
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-Using the policy to fight oppression is not saying the state is good, but rather is a heuristic to understanding the problem. |
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-Zanotti 14 Dr. Laura Zanotti is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research and teaching include critical political theory as well as international organizations, UN peacekeeping, democratization and the role of NGOs in post-conflict governance.“Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World” – Alternatives: Global, Local, Political – vol 38(4):p. 288-304,. A little unclear if this is late 2013 or early 2014 – The Stated “Version of Record” is Feb 20, 2014, but was originally published online on December 30th, 2013. Obtained via Sage Database. |
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-By questioning substantialist representations of power and subjects, inquiries on the possibilities of political |
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-position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism.’’84 |
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-The aff represents a symbolic shift away from traditional utilitarian policies that attempt to solely base politics on a cost benefit analysis. |
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-Cousins et al., Elicia, Claire Karban, Fay Li, and Marianna Zapanta “Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk, Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience” Carleton College, Environmental Studies Comprehensive Project https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/ents/assets/Cousins_Karban_Li_Zapanta.pdf SHSAM |
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-While greater safety standards are necessary, simply creating more safety legislation does not solve |
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-benefit those most at risk without necessarily creating additional costs for the government. |
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-Nuclearism operates via rhetorical exclusion within policy making – the aff’s prohibition is a form of nuclear critism which could break down our tradition of colonialism |
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-Endres 09, Danielle (Associate Professor, Communication, University of Utah Director, Communication Institute, University of Utah Affiliated Faculty, Environmental Humanities Grad, University of Utah Affiliated Faculty, Global Change and Sustainability Center, University of Utah Assistant Professor, Communication, University of Utah) March 1, 2009 “The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies SHSAM Bracketed for efficiency |
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-Considering the use of American Indian resources and lands in support of the nuclear production |
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-actions those in power deem necessary to control challenges to its legitimacy.’’48 |