Tournament: greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Pingry AG | Judge: Arthur, Byron
Meet Charley Colorado, a man part of the Navajo who lived in his ancestral sheepherding grounds where the United States had uranium mine shafts in 1957. Today he faces extreme consequences as a result of the US’s failure to notify indigenous people with the dangers and consequences of radioactive waste that they were being exposed to.
Brandon Loomis, the Republic, azcentral.com
The pacific islands and southwestern regions of the United States are plagued by nuclear colonialism- the resolution’s focus on countries relationship to nuclear power paves over those whose land an lives have been irreparably changed by nuclear energy. We much attune our discourse to those areas that are constantly asked to be forgotten
Hsu, Hsuan. "Nuclear Colonialism." Environment and Society Portal. Virtual Exhibitions, n.d. Web. Sept.-Oct. 2016.
While the countries gain access to the benefits of entering the nuclear community, all the advantages to nuclear energy that the negative discusses come at the bodily and cultural destruction of native bodies, there is blood on their hands.
Endres 09 (Endres, Danielle. "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6.1 (2009): 39-60. JSTOR. Web. 19 Aug. 2016.)
Settler colonialism is the impetus and structure that produces indigenous, racial violence, and neoliberalism. White settler alienation from land and maintenance of excess on land that sets the impetus for neoliberal domination- any alternative that endorses unclear power or the state will always reproduce indigenous violence
Tuck and Yang 12
(Decolonization is Not a Metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, Eve Tuck State University of New York at New Paltz K. Wayne Yang University of California, San Diego)TR
Barker 12
(Adam J. Barker, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, "(RE)ORDERING THE NEW WORLD: SETTLER COLONIALISM, SPACE, AND IDENTITY", Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Leicester, Page 225-234, December 2012)
The ROB is to vote for the debater that best deconstructs settler colonialism. I advocate the judge to adopt an alternative framework through red pedagogy. Decolonization is a movement that is a constant process to challenge entrenched thoughts and modes of thinking.
Grande 4
(Sandy, “Red Pedagogy,” pg. 165-167)
