Tournament of Champions 2k8 Comprehensive Caselist

China DA:

Billions are affected everyday by the lack of access to adequate healthcare. Sub-Saharan Africa has been delegated to the periphery of Western consideration, with devastating consequences.

Gandy, 2k5

www.plosmedicine.org

“the world is now experiencing the most profound public health………..the global politics of public health”
The other’spermanent lack of health care is directly linked to the exclusionary nature of modern population governance

Gandy, 2k5

www.plosmedicine.org

“in order to understand better the political dynamics……….no value within the global economy”

Kapoor, 2k4

“Hyper-self-reflexive development? Spival on representing the Third World ‘Other’”

Spivak underlines how we cannot encounter the Third World today……….the world is not to be fully global’

Kapoor

Kapoor 2k4

But Spivak is quick to examine the other side of the equation. She reproaches Western researchers/academics for something……own ability to speak and be heard’
As such, perhaps the most important thing that we can do is be self reflexive about the institution that defines our knowledge and relationship to the subaltern; namely, debate. Our institution insist that we confront our representations of Otherness. THe problem is that all too often, we simplify this incredibly complex and diverse questions of differences into something the westnern imagination can quickly and esily comprehend. Either blindly insisting on “strait up’ policy stype with all tosrts of great essentialist solutions to the healthcare crisis in Africa; or we go K style, and try to distance ourselves from the social institutions that regulate and define existence. Both seem to either ignore or outright deny our complicity in a history of domination over the subaltern. Its almost as if the only true universal is the delpolyment of univeralsim
The question then is whether we recognize the way our rezolusiton and our activiey speaks to us, or chooses to passively accept the hierarchical representations and relationship with differene that our activyt ensures.
We affirm our resolution.

THe nature of the activity is to take difference and convert it into a commodity that can be quickly disseminated and understood. But our argument is not that debate is ‘bad’. We are as seduced by the acvitity as everyone else is, and that nothing else that compartes to this fourum for politial edu. Our arugment is that we are all a part of this institution, and as such we are all part of the discourses that it circulatioes and affirms if any of us are truly concerned about afirica and the health of its poupation, then our participation in this aitivy must begin with a criical examination of our relationship with diffence it may never be possible to ‘’accurately’’ represtn differe,nce, but we will always be haunted by domination, colonialism, and global mistery if we continue to view ourselves as a tanspantion window into the epeirnoce of the subaltern.
And to that end, we should affirmt the rez. We are in the beslly of the beast now foalks. We are in the middle o f our institution most protected practive = the debate round. It is only by embrascing the impossible position that this rez puts us in tat we can begin to hold this instutiotn accountable

Kapoor 04

“Taking Derrida’s lead, Spivak insits that deconsturtion….them accoutnale to the subaltnr.
Stepping away from our traditional assumptions about the subaltern and the debate insittiion is an essential steop in any attempt to learn from our encounrters with difference. We should strive for an approach to the problems outlined in the rz that emphasive open dialonge, instead of mastery and domination. In this sense, our affirmation of the rez should be seen as a pre-req for new forms of learnding

Kappor

Role of ballot

The ballot plays a cirical role in the way we realte to our institutional practices. It is literally the deciding factor in a system that insists on a competitive clash of knowelge, with the judge using the ballot to determine which type or use of knowege should advance, and ultimate rep the suceess of activity. In mayny ways, the hiarchinzation that this process entails is inev whitn the debate., instu but not make immunte from self rrs.

As a judge, you make investment every time you dip

Voet aff may not rez but offers acknowege relations hip with otherness.