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+The affirmative is part of an economy of pain and victimized subjugation which formulates Western identity in relation to the subaltern – this process rips out the vocal chords of subalternity by trapping it within a matrix of pain and suffering. This damage-centered research produces an affective economy of paternalism that creates a model of personhood for the subaltern where to be human, they must be in pain and they dare not resist or suffer the consequences – such a colonial subjectivity re-inscribes the primacy of state power. |
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+Tuck and Yang 14 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Coordinator of Native American Studies at the State University of New York and Prof of ethnic studies @ USCD, “R-Words: Refusing Research”, 2014 |
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+Elsewhere, Eve (Tuck, 2009, 2010) has …and pained existence?” (p. 55). |
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+The debate space merely consumes this narrative of suffering and asks for more. White settler colonialism has always thought that scars make your body more interesting, that pain is more compelling than privilege, and that struggling hard in life makes you “real” and “authentic.” Judges happily gobble up this easily-consumable narrative of suffering. This feeds the colonialism inherent in the academy. |
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+Tuck and Yang 2 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Coordinator of Native American Studies at the State University of New York and Prof of ethnic studies @ USCD, “R-Words: Refusing Research”, 2014 |
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+We are struck by … know in (a) lived life |
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+The alternative is a refusal of the Affirmative’s politics of pain. Refusal is not just saying “no”, it is a shift in perspective. Denying the colonial institution of debate the satisfaction of the spectacle redirects attention from the mutilated body to instruments of oppression. This adequately represents suffering in a way such that we can study and work against it, but it refuses to satisfy the fascination with suffering, it refuses to satiate the morbid curiosity of the spectator, it refuses to play by the representational rules of white settler colonialism, and it de-spectaclizes suffering. |
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+Tuck and Yang 3 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Coordinator of Native American Studies at the State University of New York and Prof of ethnic studies @ USCD, “R-Words: Refusing Research”, 2014 |
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+For the purposes …preoccupation with pain. |