Tournament: UT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Plano East Neel Kanamangala | Judge: Spencer Orlowski
Framework
I value Justice
due to the notion of "just governments" being discussed in the resolution.
First, discussions of justice and theories of just societies in the modern era concern themselves with the notion of equality within the social sphere
May, Todd (2009). Democracy is Where We Make It: The Relevance of Jacques Rancière. _Symposium_ 13 (1): Pp 4
The theorist Amartya Sen remarks, rightly in my view,…
antagonistic relationships
May, Todd (2009). Democracy is Where We Make It: The Relevance of Jacques Rancière. _Symposium_ 13 (1): P 4
And yet…are not its subject
The only way to avoid this pitfall is through a presupposition of equality in our politics, this creates the conditions true equality to be created.
May, Todd (2009). Democracy is Where We Make It: The Relevance of Jacques Rancière. _Symposium_ 13 (1): Pp 5-7
How might... Politics is not the protection of particular qualities or the ex- pression of particular essences. The equality, as he says, is an equality of anyone and everyone.
The form that this equal system takes is through a politics of antagonism towards the political, this presupposes equality and allows subjects to claim their own agency and dialogically engage amongst themselves and other subjects.
May, Todd (2009). Democracy is Where We Make It: The Relevance of Jacques Rancière. _Symposium_ 13 (1): Pp9-11
On this view, …police order.
Thus the standard is promoting forms of democratic agonism, this entails that we preserve the conditions of democratic dialogue and disagreement through an epistemology that starts at equality
My thesis is that a right to strike would promote dialogical equality and agonism
Contention 1: Democracy
A right to strike would inherently preserve the ability for workers to engage in democratic dialogue in the workplace
Bess 09 Bess Nkabinde, The Right to Strike, an Essential Component of Workplace Democracy: Its Scope and Global Economy, 24 Md. J. Int'l L. 270 (2009).
Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mjil/vol24/iss1/22
Without the …across the globe
Striking, conceptually, preserves the ability for agents to engage in political actions of equality and discourse
Schaap 41 Andrew Schaap, Politics, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK. Email: a.w.schaap@ex.ac.uk
While the ….reinforce inequality.
Contention 2- Agonism
A right to strike would preserve the ability for workers to engage in agonistic practices through workers and employers, thus preserving authentic forms of democratic agonism
Schaap A. Inequality, Loneliness, and Political Appearance: Picturing Radical Democracy with Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière. Political Theory. 2021;49(1):28-53. doi:10.1177/0090591720920215 p 40-41
The exemplary subject ….governed.