Tournament: 1 - glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: lake highland ya | Judge: sam larson
1AC
The current formation of labor law is rooted in colonial and class violence. This makes it impossible for these laws to ever be sustainable because they are haunted by specters of the past
Ronconi 15Lucas Ronconi, 11-30-2015, "Colonial history affects labor regulations," World Bank Blogs, https://blogs.worldbank.org/jobs/colonial-history-affects-labor-regulations/ISEE
Enforcement matters: Going beyond the letter of the law When looking at labor regulation
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overall enforcement, and different levels of enforcement between larger and smaller firms.
Right to strike serves an example of this haunting – making laws in the name of “employer security” rather that what is best
Mishel 20 Lawrence Mishel 11-18-2020, "Explaining the erosion of private-sector unions: How corporate practices and legal changes have undercut the ability of workers to organize and bargain," Economic Policy Institute, https://www.epi.org/unequalpower/publications/private-sector-unions-corporate-legal-erosion//ISEE
An increasing volume of research demonstrates that erosion of worker bargaining power and collective bargaining
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if workers are to truly have the freedom to form and join unions.
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.
Turns all their scenarios
Sebastian Farquhar 17, leads the Global Priorities Project (GPP) at the Centre for Effective Altruism, et al., 2017, “Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance,” https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf
During the twentieth century, citizens of several nations lived for a time under extremely
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a particularly brutal global totalitarian state could arguably be worse than complete extinction.
Thus I affirm A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike as a ghostly revolutionary tatic.
Eisner 15 Eisner, Oriel 2015 (M.A., Comparative Literature) “History and Politics in the Work of Jacques Derrida” https://scholar.colorado.edu/downloads/zk51vg99n/ISEE
In “Critique of Violence” Benjamin analyzes and discusses various types of political violence
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current system, which opens the current law toward its future to come.
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?
Our offense turns policy making --- Our ontology is key to policymaking because it’s the baseline to the process --- they effect one another
Sin 14 --- post-doctoral researcher, Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (Cristina Sin, "The policy object: a different perspective on policy enactment in higher education," Proquest, 2/8/14, https://link-springer-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/content/pdf/10.10072Fs10734-014-9721-5.pdf)//lyss
Conclusions: relationship between policy, ontology and enactment
Bologna policy recommendations, envisaging
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in academic enactment, which in turn can influence ontologies at institutional level.
Utilitarianism causes genocide.
Santos 3 2003, Boaventura de Souza Santos is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra, “Collective Suicide?”, Bad Subjects, Issue # 63 , http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/opiniao/bss/072en.php
According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West has repeatedly been under the illusion that it
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in Stalinism, with the Gulag and in Nazism, with the holocaust.