Tournament: College Prep Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: Ambrose, Malachi
Western Techno-Orientalist discourses present Asians as subhuman and robotic- beings that not only lack moral capabilities but worst of all, threaten Western dominance. Creates internalized oppression and chain Asian bodies to the oppressive capitalist system
Esaki 20
Esaki, B. (2020) "Ted Chiang’s Asian American Amusement at Alien Arrival", Religions, 11(2), p. 56. doi: 10.3390/rel11020056. AL
Namely, from an otherhood lens, Chiang’s stories focus on challenges to the goodness
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techno-Orientalism erases subjectivity along with the richness of culture and religion.
Techno Orientalism is pervasive yet critically neglected in academia. Counterdialouge is key to reconstruct Asian images in literature
Roh et al. 15
DAVID S. ROH, BETSY HUANG and GRETA A. NIU, April 27. 2015, “Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media”, https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orientalism/9780813570631 AL
As this collection demonstrates, techno-Orientalism occurs across genres and disciplines—history
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, it has also engendered counterdialogue in those same cultural and political spaces.
Discourse creates a social reality of what we believe to be the outside world
Holzscheiter ’14 Anna, “Between Communicative Interaction and Structures of Signification: Discourse Theory and Analysis in International Relations” Anna has been Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science since April 2015. During the academic year 2014-2015 she is John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
Those not familiar with the term “discourse” often ask: Is
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text in social context.”
Orientalism functions through educational institutions to build hegemony and consent with Western domination.
Keskin 2018 (Tugrul, Middle East Studies after September 11 : Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pitt-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5449628)
As early as the 19th century, European colonial states established a direct link between
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the French and British state in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Definitions
Thus I affirm,
The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. I reserve the right to clarify in cross ex
Definition of appropriation:
Ashley and Plesch 02
Ashley, Kathleen and Plesch, Véronique. (2002). The Cultural Processes of "Appropriation". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 32. 10.1215/10829636-32-1-1.
“The person who represents the world is transformed, through the act
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imperialism, Spivak in her project gives no speaking part to the colonized.”
Definition of private enterprise: Collins Dictionary
Collins, Definition of ‘private enterprise’, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/private-enterprise#:~:text=uncountable20noun,government20or20an20official20organization.
Private enterprise is industry and business that is owned by individuals or stockholders, and not by the government or an official organization
Definition of outer space: Meriam Webster
Meriam Webster, Definition of outer space, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outer20space
space immediately outside the earth's atmosphere
The never ending hunger for economic growth and the desire to be the hegemon drives US space Exploration and technological advancement. Packaged as such by media despite it’s lack of feasibility
Leib 99
Leib, Karl. “International Competition and Ideology in U.S. Space Policy.” International Studies Notes, vol. 24, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 30–45, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44235351.
There are three primary sources for contemporary expressions of manifest destiny. The first source
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be explored in this article. Individuals outside government have also embraced the ideas
Discourse around the commercialization of space is not neutral, the US frames spending into the private sector as a military effort to keep the Asian “threat” at bay to ensure US hegemony is not threatened
Broad 21
William J. Broad Published Jan. 24, 2021 Updated May 6, 2021How Space Became the Next ‘Great Power’ Contest Between the U.S. and China. (2021). Retrieved 17 December 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/trump-biden-pentagon-space-missiles-satellite.html
Beijing’s rush for antisatellite arms began 15 years ago. Now, it can threaten
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targeting vastly more difficult — in some cases impossible — for an adversary.
Asian workers in science and engineering face a cultural double bind, either they adhere to their own cultural values and be shamed for failure to advance in a Western ideal dominated field, or be integrated into the aggressive, unforgiving capitalist mindset
Varma 02
ROLI VARMA , Science as Culture, Volume 11, Number 3, 2002 , “HIGH-TECH COOLIES: Asian Immigrants in the US Science and Engineering Workforce”, Homepages.ucl.ac.uk. Available at: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucessjb/Varma202002.pdf (Accessed: 16 December 2021).
Cultural differences between Western and Asian countries have been identified in terms of modern and
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immigrants in the SandE workforce, and thus serve the status quo
Techno-orientalist discourse is perpetuated every day, only a confrontation with pedagogical practices centered on modernization theory can break down stereotypes surrounding East Asian functionality. The aff confronts the ideas that justify private appropriation of space, thus supporting the resolution
Lozano-Mendez 10 (Artur, Undergraduate Student Majoring in East Asian Studies, Published in 2010, “TECHNO-ORIENTALISM IN EAST-ASIAN CONTEXTS: REITERATION, DIVERSIFICATION, ADAPTATION”, pg. 184-186) RR Jr
Early in the history of exchange with Europeans, Japan was presented as the most
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structuring schemata that are constantly utilized by the geopolitics of the modernization theory.”
The dehumanization of Orientalism is a form of racialized and gendered violence – it justifies military action and makes the Other dispensable.
Nayak ’06 (Meghana; Professor of Political Science at Pace University; March 2006; International Feminist Journal of Politics, 8:1; “Orientalism and ‘saving’ US state identity after 9/11; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616740500415458, accessed 7/14/16)
The third element has to do with the nexus of power and knowledge. US
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sick’ individuals rather than as agents of systemized hatred, racialization and misogyny.