1AC ~-~-- La Costa Canyon Winter Classic Round 4

Contention 1 is the Prison

Deinstitutionalization is a lie; mass institutionalization continued and

expanded into smaller and more resistant sites. Failure to resist these
systems perpetuates lethal oppression on disabled bodies and terminates
decarceration efforts.

Ben Moshe ’11 (Liat, Ph.D. Department of Disability and Human Development at
the University of Illinois at Chicago “Disabling Incarceration: Connecting
Disability to Divergent Confinements in the USA” 20 December 2011
https://www.academia.edu/1174255/Disabling_Incarceration_Connecting_Disability
_to_Divergent_Confinements_in_the_USA )

The need to combine the discussion on current levels of imprisonment with

discussion and data

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, although both settings have many similarities (Chapman et al., forthcoming).

The medico-judicial prison industrial complex has to be understood as an

interconnected system that perpetuates disability as an ideological social
dangers and their subsequential treatment through tactics such as
surveillance.

Ben Moshe ’11 (Liat, Ph.D. Department of Disability and Human Development at
the University of Illinois at Chicago “Disabling Incarceration: Connecting
Disability to Divergent Confinements in the USA” 20 December 2011
https://www.academia.edu/1174255/Disabling_Incarceration_Connecting_Disability
_to_Divergent_Confinements_in_the_USA )

On a theoretical level, the imperative to understand incarceration through

both the prism of

AND

an isolated phenomenon that can be understood by engaging with only one

locale.

The failure to understand mass institutionalization as the underlying factor

of imprisonment and incarceration makes debates frivolous and consistently
flawed

Ben Moshe ’11 (Liat, Ph.D. Department of Disability and Human Development at
the University of Illinois at Chicago “Disabling Incarceration: Connecting
Disability to Divergent Confinements in the USA” 20 December 2011
https://www.academia.edu/1174255/Disabling_Incarceration_Connecting_Disability
_to_Divergent_Confinements_in_the_USA )
Imprisonment in prisons and in institutions are not only related in a
theoretical or historical

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as working out questions of criminality and danger in studies of

institutionalization and disablement

This is emblematic of ableism’s perpetuation of normalcy- this justifies

ongoing violence and eugenics to the Others of western society.

Brown ’11 (Dosch University of Minnesota Professor. “Screw normal’: Resisting

the myth of normal by questioning media’s depiction of people with autism and
their families” 2011 *** note that the document doesn’t have a date, but cites
an article from 2011.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/gara0030/iggds/Screw20Normal_FINAL_Dosch20Brown.pdf )

The one societal need in our society that is often unacknowledged, silenced,
and

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make a sizable income from attempting to enforce these societal expectations

on families.

Contention 2 is Abolition

Thus our Advocacy statement. Vote AFF to endorse a critical disability study
of the medico-judicial prison industrial complex.

These Critical Disability Studies can become the intersection of academia and
activism. In this intersection, our radical call for abolition can become the
praxis for resistance.

Erevelles 14 (Nirmala Erevelles, Professor, Social and Cultural Studies in

Education, The University of Alabama. “Thinking with Disability Studies.”
Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, No 2, 2014.
http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4248/3587 -Veeder)

It is that time of the day when darkness is more soothing than terrifying.

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us. Yes, all of us in all our difference(s).

Within these disability studies, incarceration and instutionalization must be

understood as a continuum of carceral edificies with disability as the core
component – only this can offer a more complete and far reaching understanding
of oppression.
Ben Moshe ’11 (Liat, Ph.D. Department of Disability and Human Development at
the University of Illinois at Chicago “Disabling Incarceration: Connecting
Disability to Divergent Confinements in the USA” 20 December 2011
https://www.academia.edu/1174255/Disabling_Incarceration_Connecting_Disability
_to_Divergent_Confinements_in_the_USA )

This article was intended as a beginning to an overdue conversation between

the growing scholarship

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would fare well with a more expansive view of both disability and
incarceration.

And our aff is critical to the understandings of inequality – “Disability”

has/is the justification for inequality among Othered groups oppressed by
western society.

Baynton ‘1 (Douglas, Professor of American Cultural History, History of

Disability, and American Sign Language at the Unviersity of Iowa. 2001
“Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History”
http://rs1.uua.org/documents/bayntondouglas/justification_inequality.pdf

Since the social and political revolutions of the eighteenth century, the
trend in western

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toward one that looked outward to behavior and forward to a perfected future.

Finally, When evaluating the “institution yet to come”, our abolitionist

critique fuels uncertainty and implores us to consistently problematize and
deteriorate incarceration. This is the question of what is to be done, not
the answer.

Ben-Moshe ’11 (, Liat, Ph.D "Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration:

Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in
the U.S." (2011). Sociology - Dissertations. Paper 70
http://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070andcontext=soc_etd)

What haunts McRuer?s work is not the fear of impairment or even disablement

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built upon in a shared horizon combating “the incarceration yet to come.”