Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Murphy Middle NG | Judge: Hunter Harwood
I affirm. Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.
Res Analysis
The phrase "the production of nuclear power" means any methods or actions necessitated by nuclear power, or energy that is created by splitting apart the nuclei of atoms merriam-webster. The aff may prove that practices such as uranium mining, nuclear waste dumping, etc. are undesirable to win the round as they are tied to the process of producing nuclear power.
The word "ought" in the resolution, defined as "moral obligation" dictionary.com, assumes that the aff must defend that the action of the resolution is moral, but the concept of morality itself is flawed. Thus,
The standard is decolonial justice. Any legitimate conception of ethics must involve a preference for the colonized and excluded This enables dialogue and democracy in the face of the normalization of domination and war made possible by the detachment of Eurocentric ideals from their social and historical place, thus allowing their universalization at the expense of the colonized or "damne".
The affirmative advocates a shift or turn to the decolonial attitude. This attitude reveals the way in which knowledge and the practices which made this knowledge possible enable the reduction of the colonized to the status of subhumanity, justifying the normalization of violence and the destruction of ethical relationships necessary for the project of decolonization. We as debaters must understand ourselves as responsible for the knowledge that we produce and the ethical relations that we make possible or impossible with each other and with oppressed groups.
Maldonado-Torres 7 Nelson Maldonado-Torres. Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers May 6, 2007. "On the Coloniality of Being." Cultural Studies, 21:2. 240-270. http://www.decolonialtranslation.com/english/maldonado-on-the-coloniality-of-being.pdf~~
Hellish existence in the colonial world carries with it both the racial and the gendered
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does not become the norm or the rule, but the exception.79
Nuclear power is an extension of settler colonialism, using the justification of "terra nullus" or empty land as a means for cultural genocide, direct violence against indigenous people, and the destruction of sacred lands.
Rÿser Sherwood and Lafferty 16 Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty. Rudolph Ryser is descendant from Oneida and Cree relatives and lived his early life in Taidnapum culture. He is Chairperson of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS), a research, education and public policy institution and he is a Fulbright Research Scholar. He has served as Senior Advisor to the President George Manuel of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, as former Acting Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians (USA), and a former staff member of the American Indian Policy Review Commission - a Joint US Congressional Commission. He holds a doctorate in international relations, teaches Fourth World Geopolitics, Public Service Leadership, and Consciousness Studies at the CWIS Masters Certificate Program (www.cwis.org). He is the author of numerous essays including "Observations On Self and Knowing" in TRIBAL EPISTEMOLOGIES (Aldershot, UK), "Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge" (Berkshire) and four books including INDIGENOUS NATIONS AND MODERN STATES published by Routledge (2012). He is the Principal Investigator for the CWIS Radiation Exposure Risk Assessment Action Research Project. (Contact: Chair@cwis.org) Janna Lafferty is descendant from the Irish and Northumbrians. She holds a Master's degree in Religions from Duke University. She is a doctoral student in the Department for Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University with concentrations in critical food studies and cultural geography. Lafferty served as co-editor of the Anthropology and Environment Society's Blog, which features first-hand accounts by social scientists engaged in environmental issues. Her work has centered on social and environmental change, social justice, food and environmental justice, nature-culture relationships, and the ongoing legacies of colonialism. Ms. Lafferty is a research intern on the Center for World Indigenous Studies Radioactive Exposure Risk Assessment Action Research Project. Yvonne Sherwood is a member of the Yakama Nation. She is a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Department of Sociology (with an emphasis in feminist studies). She is a UCSC Dean's Diversity Fellow from 2011 to 2016 and was advanced to candidacy for her doctoral degree in the fall of 2015. Prior to graduate school, Sherwood was an active student leader who served as an officer for Indigenous Resistance Organizers, M.E.Ch.A. and Yakima Valley Community College Tiin- Ma. She also allied with EWU Pride, EWU Black Student Union, and Spokane's Peace and Justice League. Sherwood is currently a research intern at the Center of World Indigenous Studies where she is Co-researcher on the Radiation Risk Assessment Action Project with Rudolph Rÿser, PhD. During her time with CWIS her focus is on social analysis and community organizing. "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud" http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud 27 March 2016
Millions of indigenous peoples living in Fourth World territories around the world have been and
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for scrutiny outside the AEC or its successor the US Department of Energy.
Indigeneity is not even life without value, but unrecognizable as human life. This mentality has led to the greatest genocide in history, and will justify the destruction of the Earth should it continue. Only by taking a decolonial attitude can we engage with the indigenous knowledge production necessary to avert continuous genocide and environmental destruction.
Friedberg 2000 Lilian. Lilian Friedberg is a German-to-English translator who is of Native-American (Ojibwe)-German-Jewish descent with ten years' experience living in Germany and a Ph.D. in German. She is also a performing artist and arts educator specializing in the musical traditions of the people of Guinea, West Africa. She has been translating professionally since 1984 in a variety of fields ranging from computer technology to German history, African cultural traditions, German-Jewish literature and above all Austrian women writers—including Ingeborg Bachmann and Elfriede Jelinek. She is also a widely published creative and academic writer whose work has appeared in American Indian Quarterly, New German Critique, Monatshefte, The German Quarterly, Race Traitor, and elsewhere. Her most recent creative work, This is for Kinda Colored Girls Who Have Committed Suicide Cause the Wundabread Was Nevah Enough "Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust". American Indian Quarterly/Summer 2000 / Vol. 24, no. 3 Pg. 361-9
Giorgio Agamben has argued against the use of the term Holocaust as a descriptor for
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engage in preemptive political and intellectual action in the face of contemporary exigencies.
Frainais-Maitre 2011 Marie-Julie Frainais-Maitre. Research Fellow in the Department of Asian and International Studies and in the Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies of City University of HongKong. "The Coloniality of Western Philosophy:Chinese Philosophy as Viewed in France." Studies in Social and Political Thought. Volume 19, Summer 2011. From "Special Feature: Theorising the Postcolonial, Decolonising Theory." Pg 9-23
Universalism is also the mask of ethnocentrism. In this vein, Todorov has argued
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power relationships from which the subject speaks (Grosfoguel, 2006: 53)
