Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Scott Brown
The rhetoric of global health security shifts into and justifies Western notions of securitization first that places its own well-being while others suffer and receive the byproduct of what the West doesn’t need
Rushton 11 - (Rushton, S. (2011). Research Fellow in the Centre for Health and International Relations at Aberystwyth University. He has written widely on global health with a particular focus on international responses to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases; the architecture of global health governance; the links between health and security; and issues surrounding conflict and health.. Global Health Security: Security for whom? Security from what? Political Studies, 59(4), 779–796. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2011.00919.x) a^c
This article seeks to interrogate
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to more problems in the future. The global
Securitized discourse perpetuates symptom-led solutions to global threats – narrow focus on insecurity rationalizes military violence as a control mechanism, reinforces existing power structures
Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, former prof for Department of International Relation @ U of Sussex, 2011 (Dr. Nafeez, "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society," Global Change, Peace and Security, 23:3, pgs. 350-351, Taylor Francis, Accessed 7/6/19 JCP-GN)
Hence, they neglect the profound irrationality
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rationalising violence toward them as a control mechanism.
The alternative is to re-evaluate and categorize the current global health security narrative into typological nomenclatures. Only through typological nomenclature can we achieve balanced pedagogy without desensitizing issues of global health while maintaining healthy discourse of what warrants intervention and proper response.
Wenham 19 - (Wenham, C. (2019). Clare Wenham is Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She specializes in global health security and the politics and policy of pandemic preparedness and outbreak response, through analysis of influenza, Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19.. The oversecuritization of global health: changing the terms of debate. International Affairs, 95(5), 1093–1110. doi:10.1093/ia/iiz170) pp. 1105 – 1106 a^c
working in global health emergency response
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securitized responses to favour short-term, reactive, fire-fighting policy and
Vote negative to inherit the mindset of the critical intellectual. Only through this mindset can we interrogate the outdated norms within the 1AC and is an ignition to sustaining social movements.
Jones 99 - (Richard, Director of School of Government @ Cardiff, "Emancipation: Reconceptualizing Practice," in Security, Strategy and Critical Theory, Online: http://library.northsouth.edu/Upload/Security20Strategy20and20Critical20Theory.pdf) reformatted by a^c
The central political task of the intellectuals
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a challenge to critical security studies.