Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington AR | Judge: Chansey Agler
1AC – Hauntology
The medical industrial complex is rooted in using disease as a way to reify different modes of colonial and class violence – That make it impossible to imagine medicine as life sustaining because it is haunted by spectres of the past
Street 18 Alice Street, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh 12-12-2018, "Ghostly Ethics," Taylor and Francis, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2018.1521400/ISEE
The hospital ghosts that feature in this issue do not only make the past visible
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and social inequalities, may be generative of disease, death and suffering.
Intellectual property protections on medicines are haunted by the same specters of the ruptured medical industrial complex
TWAIL 21 Third World Approaches to International Law, 3-23-2021, "On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," TWAILR, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism//ISEE
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are time-limited legal rights granted to inventors
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rising, making essential medicines inaccessible for millions of people around the world.
Embracing these specters is key to solve for nationalist and authoritarian violence – anything other method justifies erasing all traces that disturb the self-enclosure of the present and turns all impacts.
Papastephanou 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus (Marianna, “Material Specters: International Conflicts, Disaster Management, and Educational Projects,” Educational Theory, Volume 61, Number 1, 2011, pgs. 113-114)DD
It often appears that a prolonged conflict unsettles the present. Although this is psychologically
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denied cannot be sweepingly dismissed without significant loss of commitment to international justice.
It outweighs, Authoritarianism causes extinction via nationalist wars, climate, military robots and makes all impacts more probable.
Orts ’18 Eric; June 27; Guardsmark Professor in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; LinkedIn Pulse, “Foreign Affairs: Six Future Scenarios (and a Seventh),” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/foreign-affairs-six-future-scenarios-seventh-eric-orts
7. Fascist Nationalism. There is another possible future that the Foreign Affairs scenarios
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problems, such as the risks of thermonuclear war and global climate catastrophe.
Thus I affirm that the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines as a form of ghostly ethic.
Street 18 Alice Street, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh 12-12-2018, "Ghostly Ethics," Taylor and Francis, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2018.1521400/ISEE
Hospital futures Ghosts have fulfilled a dual analytic function in the articles that feature in
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Kehr puts it, this issue) might look like for the future.
The aff is spectrality – only a critical interrogation of the present and the past as singular, totalizing, and complete can prevent the obstruction of possibility.
Zembylas 13 – Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus (Michalinos, “Pedagogies of Hauntology In History Education: Learning to Live with the Ghosts of Disappeared Victims of War and Dictatorship,” DOI: 10.1111/edth.12010, February 2013)DD
One way of addressing the past and its representations is through the concept of the
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assessed by a finite set of qualities, representations, or legal arguments.
The role of the ballot is to frontline reconciling with the past and the present
Auchter 12 Jessica Auchter “Ghostly Politics: Statecraft, Monumentalization, and a Logic of Haunting” Jessica Auchter teaches UHON 3550/3590—Topics in Behavioral and Social Science and Topics in Non-Western Cultures: Global Humanitarianism. Her main research and teaching interests lie in the field of International Relations. She has published articles in Review of International Studies, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Global Security Studies, Hyperrhiz, Ethnicity Studies, Journal for Cultural Research, andCritical Studies on Security, and several chapters in edited volume projects. Her book, The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations, was published by Routledge in 2014.
The task here, then, is to trace the political effects of haunting and
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rubble and ruin become key to imagining national identity and concepts of power.
Epistemology comes first---their model of debate risks extinction and turns their framing arguments.
Heron 8. Taitu Heron, The Planning Institute of Jamaica. "Globalization, neoliberalism and the exercise of human agency." International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 20.1-4 (2008): 85-101.
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While hunger and malnutrition haunts the poor,
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longer hold, the question is what will “the periphery” do?