AFRICAN IMAGING KRITIK
The American relationship to Africa is defined by images---representations of conflict and disease solidify a dehumanizing frame for African policy
Jamie Wallace, Ph.D. Anthropology, Oxford, 5 (http://www.hollerafrica.com/showArticle.php?artId=101&catId=1)
When we think of Africa, images … power distribution in the world (Ebo 1992:17).
Impact---negative imaging castigates sub-Saharan Africans to a global underclass---makes Africans the object of dehumanization and genocide. This calculus has been at the root of history’s worst atrocities
Rotimi Sankore, editor of Int’l Fed of Journalists, coordinator of associated rights in Africa, 5 (http://www.bond.org.uk/networker/2005/april05/opinion.htm)
Increasingly graphic depictions of …interests to allow their people to freely define their future.
Text: Reject the affirmative’s representations of Africa.
Short-circuiting negative representations of Africa allows us to tell a new POSITIVE story about Africa, devoid from the colonialist impulse
Daniele Mezzana, Sociologist and researches – CERFE groups African research, 5 (http://www.africansocieties.org/n4/eng/Dossier.htm)
The literature reported in ….better in-depth and qualified information on the African reality.
CHINA DISAD
Chinese Influence
A. There’s a window for collaboration in Africa. Public health assistance jumps out in front of consensus building and crushes collaboration – causing US-Sino conflict
Gill, Freeman Chair in China Studies at the CSIS, 2k7 (Bates, “China’s Expanding Role in Africa: Implications for the United States,” A Report of the CSIS Delegation to China on China-Africa-U.S. Relations, January, http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/chinainafrica.pdf)
First, and most importantly, there is a need for a more ….the weakness of infrastructural capacities and health workforce shortages better.
B. US involvement in sub-Saharan Africa causes Chinese perception of oil competition – causes political tension and escalates to war
Peter Hatemi, Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2k7 (“Oil and Conflict in Sino-American Relations,” China Security, Summer, Volume 3, Number 3)
As China’s petroleum consumption ….geo-strategic conflict.
C. Nuclear Holocaust
Johnson, Journalist, 5-14-01 (Chalmers, “Time to Bring the Troops Home,” The Nation, Volume 272)
China is another matter…… the nationalistic challenge to China's sovereignty of any Taiwanese attempt to declare its independence formally, forward-deployed US forces on China's borders have- virtually no deterrent effect.
CANADA DISAD
Canada leads aid to Africa – their edge relative to other G8 nations is barely “good-enough” to uphold their obsession with leadership
David Black, of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Beyond The Headlines – March 22, 2k5, lexis
Three years ago, in the context of the Kananaskis summit of the G8, Prime Minister Jean Chretien orchestrated an agenda that for the first tune focused the attention … sustaining leadership claims.
Canadians tie their national identity to foreign policy issues like public health assistance – plan jacks Canadian pride and distinctiveness – galvanizes secession in Quebec
Mark Falcoff, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, also at work on a major study of U.S.-Cuban relations, October, 1998, The American Spectator
One of the defining characteristics of Canadian foreign policy…countrymen must hope we never find out.
Quebec secession emboldens anti-US sentiments in Russia – nuke war through miscalc
Lansing Lamont, Time Correspondent and President of American Trust for the British Library, 1994, Breakup, p. 236
It might choose to believe that through ….apt to be disregarded or even removed.
Shawnee Mission East MP – Negative
CHERNUS K
the aff depiction of nuclear apocalypse = bad
Chernus ’82, (Ira, Prof. of Religious Studies @ Colorado-Boulder Mythologies of Nuclear War, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 50, No. 2. (Jun., 1982), pp. 255-273.)
In analyzing our images details or empirical realities?
ALTERNATIVE = judge should vote negative to re-mythologize nuclear war
Chernus ’82, (Ira, Prof. of Religious Studies @ Colorado-Boulder Mythologies of Nuclear War, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 50, No. 2. (Jun., 1982), pp. 255-273.)
It is surely difficult-perhaps…. because it has no end.
Security K
Abrahamsen 05 (Rita, lecturer in African and Postcolonial Politics in the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Alternatives 30, 55–80, dbm)
Coviello 01 (Peter, Asst. Professor of English @ Bodwoin, Queer Frontiers, ed. Boone)
Alternative
Ronnie D. Lipschutz, professor at UC Santa Cruz, After Authority, 2000, pg. 53-55
Politics DA’s - Usually change every week
AID Tradeoff DA
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