Tournament: Scarsdale Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
Discussions of representations are a prerequisite to argumentation.
CRAWFORD 02
Neta, PhD MA MIT, BA Brown, Prof. of poli sci at Boston University, “Argument and Change in World Politics”, p. 19-21
Coherent arguments are...a meta-argument
Their calls to protect the environment is the rhetoric that is used to justify the development programs he criticizes.
SACHS 10
Wolfgang Sachs, author and research director at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, in Germany, Chair of the board of Greenpeace Germany, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “The Development Dictionary: a guide to knowledge as power – Environment” Second edition.
The same ambivalence...the old-established family.
IMPACT: The Aff creates flawed representations that eliminate identity and differences.
NAZ 2
FARZANA NAZ, 2006 “ARTURO ESCOBAR AND THE DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE: AN OVERVIEW” ASIAN AFFAIRS
Another central feature...through this discourse.
The ALTERNATIVE is to embrace the paradigmatic framework of Buen Vivir in order to overcome Western development.
GUDYNAS 11 clarifies the alternative:
Eduardo Gudynas, Eduardo Gudynas is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center of Social Ecology (CLAES), based in Uruguay. His expertise is on sustainable development and alternatives to development., “Buen Vivir: Today’s tomorrow”, Society for International Development, 2011, DDA
Buen Vivir or...and ecological setting.
Buen Vivir and a complete rejection of development discourse provide the only mechanism to move beyond Western development.
GUDYNAS 2
The classical Western...a pluricultural setting.