Tournament: Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
Part 1 is the Role of the Ballot
Assume all cards bracketed for grammar and group pronouns.
Identities have a normative structure – every identity is governed by rules or norms. For example, to be a writer, one must meet the necessary conditions by writing.
Identities are the product of social relations with others, so sufficient reasons must be found in relation to others.
Butler 1 Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself New York: Fordham UP, 2005. Print.
In all the talk about the social construction of the subject, we have perhaps
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I am both subjected to that norm and the agency of its use.
And, there is no way of apprehending how we might be changed through a relationship with the other—attempts to control the other destroy their otherness. Exposure to this absolute otherness is the precariousness of life, which reveals our dependence on others.
Butler 2 Judith Butler, “Frames of War.” London: Verso, 2009. Print.
To say that a life is injurable, for instance, or that it can
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have are precisely those that disrupt any established notion of the "we."
Apprehending the precariousness of a life and sustaining the conditions of possibility of recognition necessitates life is grievable; i.e., its loss would matter.
Butler 3 Judith Butler, “Frames of War.” London: Verso, 2009. Print.
Over and against an existential concept of finitude that singularizes our relation to death and
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living being as living, exposed to non-life from the start.
Thus, the role of the ballot is to endorse the advocacy that best renders lives grievable.
Implications:
- Humans are initiated into certain norms that render lives ungrievable. Because norms are social, they can be interrogated and replaced with better ones—this interrogation is ethically necessary.
2. Practices that remove grief become norms through historical wrongs such as racism and patriarchy. The only way to rectify ungrievability stemming from historical racism is to carry out rectificatory justice.
Mills 14 Charles W. Mills, “White Time: The chronic Injustice of Ideal Theory” Du Bois Review. 2014.
“Would it be in the least surprising, then, if the version of
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created by humans beings whose moral equality is reciprocally recognized.
Rendering ungrievable lives grievable requires rectification of historical wrongs.
Part 2 is Ungrievability
The Department of Energy website and its brochures state that “no one in the United States has died or been injured as a result of operations at a commercial nuclear power plant.” (Richards 13)
The Native American lives lost to nuclear power have never been acknowledged, let alone grieved.
Richards 13 Linda Richards, “On Poisoned Ground.” The Chemical Heritage Foundation, Spring 2013. https://www.chemheritage.org/distillations/magazine/on-poisoned-ground Richards was the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s 2010–2011 Doan Fellow. She is researching nuclear and environmental justice history for a PhD at Oregon State University.
Nuclear-industry spokespersons, U.S. government agencies, and nuclear scientists
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. Mine waste was dumped in piles where children played until the 1990s.
The government targets the Navajo Nation for uranium mines.
LaDuke 9 Winona LaDuke, “Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path.” Orion Magazine, February 07, 2009. https://orionmagazine.org/article/uranium-mining-native-resistance-and-the-greener-path/ Winona LaDuke is an American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development. A Native American with Ojibwe ancestry, she is the executive director of both White Earth Land Recovery Project and helped found the Indigenous Women’s Network in 1985.
Over one thousand uranium mines gouged the earth in the Dine Bikeyah, the land
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communities, many of which suffer astronomical rates of cancer and birth defects.
This was not an isolated incident – Native American communities are targeted as sites for all nuclear activity, since the risks are high.
Chatterjee 97 Pratap Chatterjee. “Indigenous Groups Try to Ward Off Nuclear Waste.” Inter-Press Service News Agency. May 20 1997. http://www.ipsnews.net/1997/05/us-environment-indigenous-groups-try-to-ward-off-nuclear-waste/
California governor Pete Wilson, deciding that the federal government was not serious about plans
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,” says Darelynn Lehto, the vice president of the Prairie Island Mdewankanton.
Exploitation by the nuclear industry occurs around the world.
Rÿser et al. 16 Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty, Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine via Truth Out. “The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud.” 27 March 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud
Millions of indigenous peoples living in Fourth World territories around the world have been and
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to Fourth World indigenous peoples rarely noticed by the public eye.
:20 Australia has largest uranium reserves. Legislation protecting the aboriginal populations has been altered in favor of the mining industry.
Green 14 Jim Green, August 8, 2014. “THE NUCLEAR WAR AGAINST AUSTRALIA'S ABORIGINAL PEOPLE.” Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine – A Publication of the Center for World Indigenous Studies. https://intercontinentalcry.org/nuclear-war-australias-aboriginal-people-25148/
Muckaty Traditional Owners have won a significant battle for country and culture, but the
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with the Aboriginal-led Australian Nuclear Free Alliance playing a leading role.
I affirm that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. I reserve the right to clarify in CX on scope and implementation issues to deter silly bidirectional theory.
Rozman explains the aff advocacy. “Should or Should Not Nuclear Power Energy Be Banned Globally?” Izzati Rozman, Critical Analysis Report.
Nuclear power should be banned globally not because of the availability of extensive reasons that
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the innocent lives at stake should be banned globally (Maclellan, 2014).
Prohibition must be worldwide to ensure solvency.
Rÿser et al. 16 Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty, Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine via Truth Out. “The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud.” 27 March 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud
The Yakama Nation and her neighboring nations (Spokane, Confederated Tribes of the Colville
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unanticipated emissions and leaks remains the method for disposing of the deadly materials.
Nuclear power production must be banned worldwide, or else patterns of exploitation will continue – the industry will move to regions of other indigenous populations to escape regulation, and concentrate damages there, exacerbating the problem. Prohibition must be complete to alter the corporate norms that refuse to grieve for indigenous lives.
Prohibiting nuclear power will render lives grievable by ensuring historical exploitation is stopped and recognizing the effect of nuclear power on indigenous populations.
Underview
Engagement with institutions is a consequence of our responsibility for ensuring the grievability of the lives of others, since otherwise I separate myself from the concrete others in front of me—controls the internal link to individual moral education, which outweighs since it concerns whether we’ll be able to create meaningful change in the lives we affect no matter what positions we hold.
Simmons 99
Simmons, William Paul. “The Third: Levinas’ theoretical move from an-archical ethics to the realm of justice and politics.” PHILOSOPHY and SOCIAL CRITICISM. vol 25 no 6 1999 • pp. 83–104 WWXR 2016-7-21
The appearance of the Third invariably extends the ego’s responsibility because its appearance is not
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has radically altered the relation- ship between ethics, justice and politics.
