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There is no possibility of understanding a person in and of them self. All identities are understood through power relations – the differentiation of the subject through social relations, which are constantly changing and must, by necessity be constantly changing.
Butler 1
Judith Butler. 1992. “Continent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of “Postmodernism” Feminists Theorize the Political)
In a sense, … to politics itself.

These power relations are fluid and constantly changing and rely on the recognition of others.
Orme
Orme, Stephen. "Foucault: Subject, Power, Resistance." Academia.edu. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 July 2016.
We must imagine … interactive, trans-individual process.'
This dependency on social relations requires the apprehension and recognition of others. Only grievability makes it possible to apprehend precarious life.
Butler 2
Judith. Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? London: Verso, 2009. Print.
To say that … non-life from the start.
Failing to render lives grievable is the precondition for dehumanization and guarantees ongoing violence. 
Butler 3
Judith Butler, professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence 2004
If violence is … to those children? 

A genealogical examination is required to discover how power relations have rendered certain lives ungrievable.  This is the only way to recognize problems in society. Also means neg turns must perform a genealogy.
Foucault
Foucault, Michael. Edited by Rabinow, Paul, ed. Michel Foucault Ethics, Subjectivity, and Truth. Trans. Robert Hurley. Vol. 1. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 
For a long time, … a work of thought. 

Truths and normative ideologies cannot be understood absent the power structures that define them. In order to have a hope at producing any change or generating true obligations, we must examine how power has led to come to understand what we conceive of us as “true.”
Rider
Shawn Rider. Michel Foucault: Truth and Power; http://www.wdog.com/rider/writings/foucault.htm
The structure is … political and social strife.

Thus the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater whose analysis better fosters conditions to recognize lives as grievable.
Ought statements are a question of values. This means the resolution isn’t a question of policy enactments but advocating for preferred value systems.
Robinson
Robinson, Richard. "OUGHT AND OUGHT NOT." PHILOSOPHY THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY XLVI.177 (1971): n. pag. Cambridge Core. Web. 15 Sept. 2016. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/BA9752759876ED16DB802A83CC265EE8/S0031819100018969a.pdf/ought-and-ought-not.pdf.

Many ought-sentences are … ideal than prudential. 

Thus I contend that power structures affirmed by nuclear power have rendered lives ungrievable and are thus unfavorable.  
A. Following the Three Mile Island incident, nuclear reactors in the US have only been approved in low income black neighborhoods.
Couins et al 13
Cousins, Elicia, Claire Karban, Fay Li, and Marianna Zapanta. Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk, Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience. Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 2013. Print.https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/ents/assets/Cousins_Karban_Li_Zapanta.pdf
Methods We first …African American population (Table 2). 

B. Plans for nuclear waste disposal disregard the precariousness of Aboriginal lives by disregarding importance of their land and culture.
Green 07
Jim; “RADIOACTIVE RACISM IN AUSTRALIA”; Jim Green Friends of the Earth; Australia; February 2007; http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/racism. Accessed August 8 2016

In February 1998, … Title claimant groups.

This form of exclusion occurs worldwide. 

WISE 93
Environmental Racism and Nuclear Development By the WISE-Amsterdam Collective WISE News Communique; 387-388; March 28, 1993; www.antenna.nlwise; Accessed August 8 2016
This same scenario … in the world.