Contention 1: Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
Gadhafi has died but totalitarianism in Libya is still at-large in the ruling National Transitional Council. The NTC has excluded Berber identity and language from the new constitution because they view disagreement as a threat to the new government.
Khalifi and Zurutuza 11-8 Karlos Zurutuza and Fathi Ben Khalifa, reporter and president of the World Amzigh Congress, “Libya's Berbers feel rejected by transitional government”, Deutsche Welle, 8 November 201, http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15515687,00.html
Libya's Berbers, or Amazigh, [...] lot of things to be improved.
This policy comes from a flawed conception of democracy based in instrumentalism, where governmental legitimacy is based in a search for overarching truth and correct decisions. This type of government cannot be called a democracy because it fails to achieve political equality.
Peter 08 Fabienne Peter, “Pure Epistemic Proceduralism”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 2008, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/episteme/v005/5.1.peter.html
In the recent literature, theories [...] conditions of political and epistemic fairness.
Under an instrumental democracy, Berber cultural and linguistic revival is doomed to failure because Berbers will never attain recognition in the political sphere. \
Stroud 01 Christopher Stroud, English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore “African Mother-tongue Programmes and the Politics of Language: Linguistic Citizenship Versus Linguistic”, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01434630108666440
This statement is far from novel [...] .f. Othman, unpublished).
This is not an isolated incident; we are on the brink of a new social era where politics of cultural recognition are replacing politics of economic redistribution. Current democratic theories are creating a chasm between class politics and identity politics which reinforce static group identities and ultimately fail to overcome political subordination.
Fraser 03 Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth, professor of philosophy at New School and professor of philosophy at Frankfurt School Germany, Redistribution or Recognition: A Political-Philosophical Exchange, Verso, 2003, p. 90-93, UO_MG_11
The recent shift from redistribution to [...] recognition in a comprehensive political framework.
Contention 2: Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!
Despite the importance of language and culture for identity formation, there is no political incentive to support language recognition because the destruction of language is considered cultural genocide, which is not considered to be a ‘real’ genocide under law.
Nersessian 05 David Nersessian, “Rethinking Cultural Genocide Under International Law”, Human Rights Dialouge, Carnegie Council, 2005, http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/publications/dialogue/2_12/section_1/5139.html
“Genocide” is an amalgam [...] Perhaps a message better left unsent.
Without recognition in the political sphere deviant identities create enclaves separate from politics. This division allows cultural genocide to occur. The concepts of cultural and physical genocide are impossible to separate; both include social death which is the most catastrophic impact in the round.
Card 02 Claudia Card, “Genocide and Social Death”, Hypatia, 2002, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hypatia/v018/18.1card02.html
This essay develops the hypothesis that [...] view, however, is controversial.
Discursive acts of recognition are what create and destroy identity in the international arena. Elevating state interaction above discursive interplay backfires, producing chaos and war because it does not recognize the root of conflict in the modern age.
Dryzek 06 [John S, Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne , Deliberative Global Politics: Discourse and Democracy in a Divided World, published by Polity Press, 2006, page 3, //uo-tjs]
Discourses construct meaning, distinguish agents [...] ), corporations, or even terrorists.
Plan Text: the United States Federal Government should increase its democracy assistance to Libya by advocating that the Transitional National Council recognize the Berber language as a national language of Libya AND by providing technical assistance to develop and support democratic institutions through programs promoting human rights, rule of law, elections, participation, and/or media.
Contention 3: The Yellow Brick Road
The affirmative solves the chasm between recognition and redistribution by creating a new vision for democracy: democratic proceduralism. In this vision political equality should be used as the method of determining democratic legitimacy.
Peter 08 Fabienne Peter, “Pure Epistemic Proceduralism”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 2008, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/episteme/v005/5.1.peter.html
Proceduralists reject the idea that [...] reasonable comprehensive conceptions of the good.
And, every act in IR includes a discursive component; our affirmative epitomizes the deliberative approach, opening pathways for change
Dryzek 06 [John S, Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne , Deliberative Global Politics: Discourse and Democracy in a Divided World, published by Polity Press, 2006, page 5, //uo-tjs]
Whether looking at negotiations, international [...] Protocol for the protection of the ozone
The 1AC represents a perspectival dualist understanding that combines redistribution recognition to create a new wave of social reforms: nonreformist reforms. These movements seek to gain political equality through affirmative and transformative actions.
Fraser 03 Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth, professor of philosophy at New School and professor of philosophy at Frankfurt School Germany, Redistribution or Recognition: A Political-Philosophical Exchange, Verso, 2003, p. 93-94,UO_ MG_11
In this chapter, I have [...] the requirement of justice for all.
The plan recognizes Berbers subordination as a product of both misrecognition of identity and maldistribution of resources. This creates a ground for political struggle where social transformation can overcome both the identity and material barriers to linguistic revival.
Stroud 01 Christopher Stroud, English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore “African Mother-tongue Programmes and the Politics of Language: Linguistic Citizenship Versus Linguistic”, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01434630108666440
In a sense, what we [...] (Weeks, 1997: 4)
Agency must be evaluated before wellbeing.
Peter 08 Fabienne Peter, “Pure Epistemic Proceduralism”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 2008, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/episteme/v005/5.1.peter.html
Instrumentalists probably do not want to [...] form an irreducible component of legitimacy.
Democracy assistance includes aid for the promotion of justice, political pluralism, inclusion, and participation.
McMahon 02-Director, Center on Democratic Performance Department of Political Science Binghamton University-2 (The Impact of U.S. Democracy and Governance Assistance in Africa: Benin Case Study http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PCAAB068.pdf)ADI
U.S. Democracy Assistance [...] of U.S. assistance.
Focusing solely on the instrumental effects of an action ignores the constitutive ones which are larger and more enduring
Dryzek 06 [John S, Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne , Deliberative Global Politics: Discourse and Democracy in a Divided World, published by Polity Press, 2006, page 113-114, //uo-tjs]
All actions have both instrumental and [...] to the exclusion of constitutive reasoning.
And, their focus on institutional argument as an attempt to preserve stability robs the deliberative process of value – our aff solves for debate best
Doxtader 95 [Erik, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, “Public Goods, Associations, Institutions, etc.”, Argumentation & Advocacy, Spring 1995, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p185. //uo-tjs]
In a society, institutions are [...] in order to empty its content.
Perm – we can use combine critical notions of Middle Eastern security with practical action.
Bilgin 05 – Assistant Prof of International Relations at Bilkent University, “REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE”, PAGE 10.
The question is whether critical approaches [...] between multiple dimensions of regional security.
The permutation is best—Orientalist critique can supplement but cannot replace traditional scholarship.
Kbiri 08 – Major, Royal Moroccan Air Force [Hamid, April 2008 “THE INFLUENCE OF ORIENTALISM ON AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS AND POLICIES IN THE MIDDLE-EAST” A Research Report Submitted to the Faculty In Partial Fulfillment of the Graduation Requirements, Advisor: Edward Ouellette, Ph.D.Maj USAF http://www.scribd.com/doc/12070695/The-Influence-of-Orientalism-on-American-Perceptions-and-Policies-in-the-MiddleEast, Accessed: 9/1/11. //uo-tjs]
Of course, not all the [...] time to think outside the Orientalist box
Their K is obsessed with avoiding the pitfalls of representing non-Western cultures, this causes their alternative to suppress critical political action in the name of political correctness
Chow 04, Professor of the Humanities at Brown, [“Towards an Ethics of Postvisuality: Some Thoughts on the Recent Work of Zhang Yimou,” Poetics Today, Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 673-688. Project Muse. p. 677-78. //uo-tjs]
In a similar vein, we [...] in the name of political rectitude.
Said’s discourse is just as essentialist as that which he critiques.
Cliford 80 [James, University of California at Santa Cruz. “Review: [Untitled]”. History and Theory, Vol. 19, No. 2. (Feb., 1980), pp. 204-223. //uo-tjs]
Discourse analysis is always, in [...] tolerance will fall on deaf ears.
Their social theory replicates the logic of colonialism—the impact is the case
Tinker 08 [George, American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty, 2008.]
What indigenous communities want most of [...] colonization and the will to empire.
Their representation of capitalism is what creates its hegemony
Gibson-Graham 96, the pen name of Katherine Gibson, Senior Fellow of Human Geography at Australian National University, and Julie Graham, professor of Geography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), p. 1-3
Understanding capitalism has always been a [...] that are not what they seem).
Deconstructing nationalism is a precondition to rejecting capitalism. Specifically, the national framework encloses the labor force and casts victims of capitalism to the periphery of national space. From here coalitions may form to use the national space for social justice.
Cheah 99 [Pheng, Professor in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California at Berkeley and in the English Department at Northwestern University, "Spectral Nationality: The Living On [sur-vie] of the Postcolonial Nation in Neocolonial Globalization." Boundary 2 26.3 (1999) 225-252. //uo-tjs]
But why is the nation- [...] on the long road to social redistribution
U.S./E.U. cooperation on Middle East democracy promotion strengthens the alliance addressing common security concerns, which is critical to combating terrorism and protecting global peace
Asmus, Diamond, & McFaul 05 [Ronald D. Asmus, executive director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels. Larry Diamond and Michael McFaul are senior fellows at the Hoover Institution and professor (by courtesy) and associate professor of political science at Stanford University, respectively. Mark Leonard is director of foreign policy studies at the Centre for European Reform in London. “A Transatlantic Strategy for Democratic Development in the Middle East,” The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Washington Quarterly, 2005, 28:2 pp. 7–21, pg. 20-21. //uo-tjs]
One of the great historical lessons [...] bold and comprehensive to realize that vision
Currently only the US can create effective international rights norms.
Spiro 00, Professor, Law, Hofstra University, “The New Sovereigntists; American Exceptionalism and Its False Prophets,” FOREIGN AFFAIRS, November/December 2000, p. 9+.
For now, however, the [...] respect the rule of international law.
EU empirically fails at democracy assistance- 4 reasons
Youngs 06 (October, Richard, director of the democratisation programme at the Fundación para las Relaciones
Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) in Madrid, and lecturer at the University of Warwick, “Europe’s flawed approach to Arab democracy,” Centre for European Reform, http://www.cer.org.uk/pdf/essay_youngs_arab_democracy.pdf, ADI)
The EU has been almost completely [...] -rooted reformers on the ground.
