Tournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Environmental injustice is the new form of settler colonialism pervading modern life. Wastelanding is the process through which discursive injustice becomes concrete 

Voyles, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC

Wastelanding takes two primary forms: the assumption that nonwhite lands are valueless, or valuable only for what can be mined from beneath them, and the subsequent devastation
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“abracadabra, hocus-pocus” – systematically stripped of their material and ideological worth.

Production of nuclear power entails white conceptions of progress, results in Indigenous Erasure. First is Paddy Martinez.

Voyles 2, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC

Paddy Martinez discovered the richest uranium deposit in the country,
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He left behind a crudely lettered cardboard sign: “Please don’t take anything out of my place and live along (leave alone) my pig…From Paddy Martinez.”

The Vanishing Indian narrative is yet another way settler colonialism constricts possibilities of Indigenous self-determination. 

Voyles 3, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC

Both of these narratives, that of the vanishing Indian and that of Paddy Martinez
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always (and here we insert the qualifier “unfortunately,” like good nostalgic imperialists) decide in favor of progress.

Production of nuclear power only further cemented Indigenous displacement with essentialized histories 

Voyles 4, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC

Much of the language of development on Native land in general and Navajo land in
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leaving the reader to wonder who exactly, nurturing woman or young child, is to be bruised.

The Role Of The Ballot is resisting hegemonic discourses. 

1. analytic
   2. analytic 

Thus:
Sovereign nations ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power as an advocacy to challenge settler colonial power and to reverse the reification of the Wasteland. This prolineal genealogy is key to reimagining a future for indigenous life not contingent upon colonial consumption of indigenous identity.

Solvency

Prolineal genealogy as a praxis is the starting point for revolution

Smith, Andrea 08  associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California, Riverside “Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances”. Durham: Duke University Press. https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=fRF6VdH24VwCandprintsec=frontcoverandoutput=readerandsource=gbs_atbandpg=GBS.PR27.w.0.2.0 TC

Justine Smith critiques the prevalent project within Native studies of replacing Western epistemologies and knowledges
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but because asking the way is part of the revolutionary process itself’’ (Holloway 2005, 215).

Counter-mapping is prolineal genealogy that undermines notions of territoriality: in reclaiming the land, indigenous activists guard against future environmental desecration

Voyles 5, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC

Counter-mapping, or marking out indigenous claims over territory and resources, has been a crucial
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and away from this part of Dine Bikeyah, well before U.S. acquisition of the Southwest. 

Native accounts of the nuclear age constitute a performative genealogy that overturns the supposed objectivity of colonial epistemology

Voyles 6, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC

Moreover, while the hegemonic story of Paddy
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teleologically to, but rather existing in tension with, settler colonialism. 

Underview:

Native American studies provide a starting point for deconstructing other Western discourses and solve back for other forms of oppression

Smith 2, Andrea 08  associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California, Riverside “Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances”. Durham: Duke University Press. https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=fRF6VdH24VwCandprintsec=frontcoverandoutput=readerandsource=gbs_atbandpg=GBS.PR27.w.0.2.0 TC

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn argues that Native American studies is not understood as its own intellectual
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 These concepts include (1) rearticulation, (2) intellectual ethnography, and (3) generative narratology and prolineal genealogy.

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington KB | Judge: Annie Kors
Intellectuals, such as judges and debaters, are in a unique position to combat regimes of “truth”. We operate in the realm of abstract arguments, which is where regimes of truth and grammatical correctness reside.

Foucault:
Michel Foucault, “Power and Knowledge,” 1980, Print.
It seems to...the present time

Creating an objective way to understand language is how the state asserts its power through the legal apparatus, creating such regimes of truth, destroying the revolutionary potential of critical discourse- under a “pragmatic” view of language, grammatical rules are no more than political assertions. 

Deleuze and Guattari (1) 87
Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. Chapter 4 of "A Thousand Plateaus, translated by Brian Massumi." Minneapolis: University of Minnesota (1987).
But the scientific...transmitting order - words.

Limited interpretive paradigms only lead to reduction of literature as an object of consumption.

Deleuze and Guattari (2) 72
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari discuss this in relation to literature in their book, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972. p132-4.) :
Here again, oedipalization...means of escape.

Our identity as intellectuals in the debate space requires us to understand the resolution as a text containing infinite multiplicities of meaning rather than a static, single-dimensional plane for engagement. 

Derrida 77
Jacques Derridas 77, “Living On” in Ch. 3 of Deconstruction and Criticism. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Derrida_LivingOn.pdf

If we are...in the foreground

We need to stop disrupting the flow of the text we embody, and we should stop contributing to the Oedipalization of knowledge. Rather than be a passive cataloguer, I, the aff, seek to imagine and write the interactions of the resolution. 

Deleuze and Guattari (3) 72
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari discuss this in relation to literature in their book, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972. p132-4.) :

Strange Anglo-American ...not an expression

We should focus on the transformative power of the imaginative envisioning of students as becoming.

Steeves 14:
Toby Steeves, 2014, “Uttering towards otherwise: Students as rhizomatic nomad assemblages”

When popular visions...versions of themselves

Writing the assemblage of language and state forces the two concepts to grapple with each other in defining their limits and possibilities because their inherently defined power structures operate parallel to each other, rather than in rigid hierarchy.  

Agamben 95:
Giorgio Agamben 95, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 

The validity of...the law,’ ius dicere 

Writing the university as a rhizome unveils possibilities for revolutionary change.
Barnett 13
 (“Imagining the University,” published by Routledge)
A key idea...has a hard shell.

Barnett (2)
 2013 (“Imagining the University,” published by Routledge)
 There is a...for this university.