Contention One: Disabled Democracy
USAID frames its international assistance to disabled people with a Medical Model. Disability is stigmatized as a disease to be cured excluding the role of Disabled People’s Organizations.
Albert ‘6
Bill Albert. Research director at the Disability Knowledge and Research at the University of East Anglia. 2006. “In or Out of the Mainstream? Lessons from Research on Disability and Development Cooperation”. Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. Pages 11-15. //fitz.
An important issue...work on gender
USAID treats Yemeni disabled people as objects of care through its goal-oriented method of allocating capacity building. Yemeni DPOs are excluded from this assistance.
USAID ‘8
USAID. Most predictable agent on the topic. 2008. “Fifth Report on the Implementation of USAID Disability Policy”. http://www.usaid.gov%2Fabout_usaid%2Fdisability%2Fmodules%2Fdisreport08.pdf //fitz.
Although an impressive ...found at the following website: http://www.usaid.gov/ about_usaid/disability/policies.html.
This is part and parcel with USAID’s attempt to establish top-down rubrics for measuring the success of democracy assistance—shallow readings of politics artificially create ends in themselves.
Crawford ‘3
Gordon Crawford. Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at University of Leeds. UK. Spring 2003. “Promoting Democracy From Without—Smoldering Phoenix”. Democratization 10:1. Pages 80-83//fitz.
Following the introduction ...change, discussed below.
Constructions of vulnerability cause systematic exclusion – transgressive research politicizes understandings of vulnerability that account for universal fragility.
Goggin ‘9
Gerard Goggin. Researcher at the University of New South Wales, Australia. 2009. “Disability, Media, and the Politics of Vulnerability”. Asia Pacific Media Educator 19. Pages 5-11. //fitz.
I would agree...whom we are.
Contention Two: Fresh Perspective
We run a great risk of over-simplifying the complexities of disability in Yemen.
How account for Abu-Habib’s story?
Rousso ‘3 [Gender and Education for All: The Leap to Equality Education for All: a gender and disability perspective Harilyn Rousso 2003, JP Miller & kirk]
For example, a ...and Lebanon (Nagata, 2003).
Or Nohra’s experience…
Some of these...higher education at all.
Grut & Ingstad 2006 [“This is my life – Living with a disability in Yemen: A Qualitative Study,” Lisbet Grut & Benedicte Ingstad, 2006, Sintef Health Research Report, JP Miller]
Affirmative scholarship that accounts for complexity is key to reverse paternalistic discourses. Cultural spaces must be contested to prevent material exclusion initiated by the allocation of services.
Snyder and Mitchell ‘10
[Introduction: Ablenationalism and the Geo-Politics of Disability Sharon L. Snyder David T. Mitchell Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 4, Number 2, 2010, pp. 113-125, JP Miller]
The historical developmen...continue to be examined.
Treating disability with a Social Model spills over to the broader distribution of resources and services among DPOs and governmental organizations.
Lang ‘1
Raymond Lang. Senior Research Associate at the Overseas Development Group of the University of East Anglia. January 2001. “The Development and Critique of the Social Model of Disability”. Pages 2-3. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lc-ccr/lccstaff/raymond-lang/DEVELOPMMENT_AND_CRITIQUE_OF_THE_SOCIAL_MODEL_OF_D.pdf//fitz.
The objective of...politically charged issue.
Debates on the resonances of emotional connection educate for political engagement
Hart, 2k7 Gender modified*. [Reciprocal Revelation: Toward a Pedagogy of Interiority, Tobin Hart, Professor of Psychology Co-founder and President of the Child Spirit Institute University of West Georgia, Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning, 3(2) (Spring 2007), 1-10. Oxford College of Emory University. 1549-695 https://www.jcal.emory.edu//viewarticle.php?id=83&layout=html, JP Miller]
With most topics, ...a will to wonder. (p. 46) Contention Three: Policymaking-in-Process
united states federal government should substantially increase capacity building for participatory evaluation to disability organizations in yemen
Our reading of ambivalent experiences caught between suffering and empowerment refuses current State and DPO framings of vulnerability in favor of a communication moment of playfulness.
Kim ‘11
['Heaven for disabled people': nationalism and international human rights imagery,’ Eunjung Kim, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Online publication date: 17 January 2011, JP Miller]
Responding to the...around the world.
Yemen offers a key site for political action—
Research assistance provides local DPOs with tools to expand their influence in aid planning processes
Turmusani ‘5
[Majid Turmusani (Researcher specializing in disability and development issues. Disability World Issue no. 26 Decemeber - February 2005, JP Miller]
The overwhelming majority...into development national
The affirmative offers a radical approach to knowledge about disabilities. Capacity building to foster phenomenological approaches to analysis reveal the complex nature of disabled experiences.
Dubois and Trani ‘9
Jean-Luc Dubois and Jean-François Trani. 2009. Institute of Research for Development at the University of Versailles. Disability and Inclusive Development Centre at the University College of London. “Enlarging the capacity paradigm to address the complexity of disability”. European Journal of Disability Research. Pages 10-11//fitz.
To address these...data collection operation.
Participatory evaluations of disability incorporate all agents—micro-level analysis is crucial for widespread political engagement.
Crawford ‘3
Gordon Crawford. Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at University of Leeds. UK. Spring 2003. “Promoting Democracy From Without—Smoldering Phoenix”. Democratization 10:2. Pages 13-14//fitz.
Another feature of...of democratization itself.
Contention Four:
When framing the ballot, take inspiration from Metzger’s description of:
This might play out as a renewed interest in the facilitation of `court' institutions within ....; Oosterlynck and Swyngedouw, 2010).*
Otherwise,
Relating back to Marres's....even trying?*
Metzger 2011 [Metzger J, 2011, "Neither revolution, nor resignation: (re)democratizing contemporary planning praxis: a commentary on Allmendinger and Haughton's "Spatial planning, devolution, and new planning spaces"" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 29(2) 191 – 196, JP Miller]
The building of such semiformal or ....dominant corporatist interests.
controlling or managing them — despite, or alongside of, the good intentions. Clearly it is important not to overstate this ‘hermeneutic of suspicion’, and to reject, rather than engage with, those wishing to genuinely improve the quality of relationships*
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because it is unable to account for the broader context, including other media messages and audience habitus, in which people engage with media
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a long tradition of regarding the masses as vulnerable to being influenced, or duped, that is now well contested (Blackman and Walkerdine 2001; Gauntlett 2005). I would agree with this argument, and add also that while this tendency has been heavily contested in media theory, it still appears to hold sway when it comes to particular groups. What emerges from their analysis is a glimpse of how two problematic, yet still highly influential, models interact: the medical model of disability and the effects model of media, and its reception. Hence my concern that people with disability are still assumed to come under the mantle of the ‘vulnerable’; when, as Holland et al. convincingly show, the vulnerable have agencies, voices, perspective, and some power also — but too often this is systematically ignored.*
[look to first Goggin card p. 7-8 1AC for cite, context]
Hold USAID accountable to lived experiences of disability—Refusing this engagement whitewashes your complicity and locks in medical paternalism
Bradley 2005 [Tamsin Bradley. Senior Lecturer at the London Metropolitan University. June 1 2005. “Challenging International Development’s Response to Disability”. GLADNET Collection. Pages 71-72. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/gladnetcollect/317//fitz.]
Attitude change .... experiences and dreams.
Creative Learning Requires Experiment.
The Debate Network is a Work in Progress—A Complex Adaptive System Emerging Through Non-Linear Interactions Between Arguments, Debaters, and Judges.
As McDaniel writes:
it’s essentially meaningless to talk about a complex adaptive system being in equilibrium: the system can never get there. In fact, if the system ever does reach equilibrium, it isn’t just stable. It’s dead*
Reuben R. McDaniel 2003
[Austin researchers are as thick as thieves: Reuben McDaniel is Chair in Health Care Management at UT-Austin; he wrote the article with Michelle E. Jordan-Austin Elementary School Teacher; Brigitte F. Fleeman-Research Associate in Educational Psychology at UT-Austin. “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise! A Complexity Science View of the Unexpected” Health Care Management Review July/Sept 2003]
Although often ....s and what doesn’t work.
