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1AC - 7/27
email meyertdebate@gmail.com for neg related questions **__Contention 1: New Orleans __** __The objective ….__ adopted widely (Jenkins, Laska and Williamson 2007).
 * Natural disasters are inevitable and chaotic - New Orleans still lacks mass transit evacuation plans – the carless will be trapped again.**
 * Renne et al. 8** – Renne is a PhD from the University of New Orleans, Sanchez is a PhD from the University of Utah, and Litman is a director at the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (John Renne, Thomas Sanchez, and Todd Litman, “National Study on Carless and Special Needs Evacuation Planning: A Literature Review”, October 2008, accessed 7/3/12)//BZ


 * Building transportation infrastructure helps rectify the psychological trauma of Katrina**
 * Steinberg 8** (Philip E., 2008, “What is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina,” http://books.google.com/books?id=v1x2cbHvULAC&dq=What+Is+a+City%3F:+Rethinking+the+Urban+After+Hurricane+Katrina&source=gbs_navlinks_s, mat)

__The ensuing …. to the disaster.__

**__Contention 2: Racism __** A landmark decision …. __city neighborhoods.__
 * Thus the plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its investment in evacuation transportation infrastructure in New Orleans.**
 * The intersection of race and poverty and car-lessness made the aftermath of Katrina into an overwhelming display of institutional racism. Mass transportation is critical for evacuation**
 * Wailoo et al. 10** (Keith Wailoo- B.A, 1984, Yale University; M.A., 1989, and Ph.D. (History and Sociology of Science), 1992, University of Pennsylvania; joint appointment: Associate Professor of History, Karen M. O’Neill- Karen M. O’Neill studies how land and water policies change the standing of program beneficiaries and experts and change government's claims to authority and power., Jeffrey Dowd- graduate student, Roland Anglin- Associate Research Professor; Director, Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) Rutgers University-Newark ; Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America; 11/2010; pages 23-27)

__The struggle against racism__ __… the stakes are irresistible.__
 * This racism must be confronted at its heart**
 * Memmi****2k –** Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Paris (Albert, “RACISM”, translated by Steve Martinot, pp.163-165)

According to Fred Cuny, __the__ __….__**__interpreted through policy and practice.__**
 * Obligation to preclude the potentiality of the past’s repetition requires government action on Katrina**
 * Jorgenson 11** Hurricane Katrina: Humanitarian Obligations and Lessons Learned Ellen Jorgenson Case-Specific Briefing Paper Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Emergencies University of Denver 2011

__**Contention 3: Speed**__ 
 * Patchwork applications of speed enable the rendering of populations disposable**
 * Steinberg 8** (Philip E., 2008, “What is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina,” http://books.google.com/books?id=v1x2cbHvULAC&dq=What+Is+a+City%3F:+Rethinking+the+Urban+After+Hurricane+Katrina&source=gbs_navlinks_s, mat)

__The flooding ….__ been taken for granted.


 * Speed isn’t inherently bad- using speed for globalized endeavors at the expense of the locally marginalized causes the Accident**
 * Tiessen 5** (Matthew, 12/28, Space and Culture, “Speed, Desire, and Inaction,” [], mat)

It was pointed …. taken for granted.

**Sykes 9** – graduate student at the university of north texas (Jason, “Paul Virilio’s critique of speed, technology, and institutions”, pdf available online) //BZ In Virlio’s view, __the__ __…. politicize speed.__ (Virilio, 1983, pg. 35)”
 * Speed applied solely to technocratic elites makes a catastrophic Accident inevitable— — speed must be examined and redistributed to enable democratic deliberation -- the politics of speed guarantees mass conflict**

__**Contention 4: Framing**__

Health Policy Institute (Reilly, “Environmental Justice Through the Eye of Hurricane Katrina” 2008, [] )//ALo The __American transportation …. **and treatment**. 194__
 * Environmental justice demands federal action; leaving policies up to local populations recreates disasters as communities fail to live up to their obligations to the poor.**
 * Morse 8** - senior attorney with the Biloxi office of Mississippi Center for Justice; received Equal Justice Works Katrina Legal Fellowship; received Edwin D. Wolf Public Interest Law Award from the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; co-founder of the Steps Coalition; Panelist for the Joint center for Political and Economic Studies, NAACP; published by the Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies


 * A recognition of the Other constructed by Katrina is critical to combat institutionalized racism and the logic of disposability**
 * Scheper-Hughes 5** - prof of anthropology (Nancy, December, Anthropology Today, “Katrina: The disaster and its doubles,” [|www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3694939], mat)

At times of crisis and catastrophe, …. __so utterly failed them.__


 * The state is inevitable - our obligation is to make it ethical**
 * Boggs 2k** (BOGGS, PF POLITICAL SCIENCE – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 2K CAROL, THE END OF POLITICS, 250-1) Herm

But it is a very …. __operandi.__

In "Gender and `Postmodern' …. __ war __ __and militarism.__
 * A crisis focused ethic is wrong – attention to isolated instances of warfare ignores the daily horrors of militarist exceptionalism. This is the precondition for any war to happen**
 * Cuomo 96** – PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati (Chris, Hypatia Fall 1996. Vol. 11, Issue 3, pg 30)


 * The 1AC is a pedagogical advocacy that opens up new opportunities for democratic deliberation and political action. A recognition of our obligations to the materially deprived helps to combat the biopolitics of disposability.**
 * Giroux, 6** – Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, previous professors at BU, Miami U, and Penn State (Henry, “Reading Hurricane Katrina: Race, Class, and the Biopolitics of Disposability”, accessed from JSTOR 7/1/12)//BZ

__Biopolitics is__ not …. __the lifeblood of democracy,__


 * We can only strive to remedy the past – the future is contingent and radial**
 * Sa, 4** – Deug Whan, Dong-U College, South Korea, (“CHAOS, UNCERTA I N T Y, AND POLICY CHOICE: UTILIZING THE ADAPTIVE MODEL,” International Review of Public Administration, vol. 8, no. 2, 2004, scholar)RK

In many cases, __….__ governed by the same causal relationships.

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Politics (JV) + Case Politics + adv cps Free Market CP Virilio Food Prices DA Dedev

round 2 - oil disad + steel pipeline advantage CP round 4- virilio round 5- metaphors da + schmitt