Tournament: Harvard | Round: 3 | Opponent: Rock Hill HS | Judge: Vandan Patel
The Interstellar Railroad, or Speculation and Shareholder Whiteness in the Space Economy Réka Patrícia Gál April 14, 2021
Indeed, Musk has carefully positioned his company as a space transportation company, and
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, and whiteness in interstellar space, and speculate towards a better future?
Klinger, J. M. (2018). Rare earth frontiers: From terrestrial subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. Cornell University Press.
On November 24, 2015, US president Barack Obama signed the Spurring Private Aerospace
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the end of the Cold War (United States House of Representatives 1998).
Cornum, Lou. "Event Horizon." Real Life Mag, 12 Mar. 2018, https://reallifemag.com/event-horizon/.
The word pioneer, usually attached to innovation, is never too far from people
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givens, the most persistent and damning of them being contact as conquest.
Settler colonialism is an ongoing structure, not an event. The erasing of Native history, life and culture are ongoing devastating impacts that outweigh the affirmative. The affirmative actively participates in the settler colonial project of erasure—-anything that does not start from the question of settler colonialism removes indigeneity from history. Settlerism is an everyday process shaped by affective investments in institutions that claim jurisdiction over native land. Legal and political action is inextricably dependent on the elimination of the native.
—MA U of Victoria, BASc McMaster University ~Adam J., "(Re-)Ordering the New World: Settler Colonialism, Space, and Identity" Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Leicester 224-234, December 2012~
Dynamics of Erasure It is important to begin by investigating the erasure of Indigenous presence
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to differentiate between genocidal acts based on arbitrary distinctions, splitting colonial hairs.
State space exploration destroys the hope for indigenous and afro futurism, subsuming space with ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬settlerism. Thus, the alternative is to make space for indigenous and afro futurism. Reject all instances of settler moves to innocence. Cornum 15.
Cornum, L., and Cornum, L. (2017, April 18). The space ndn's star map. The New Inquiry. Retrieved February 19, 2022, from https://thenewinquiry.com/the-space-ndns-star-map/
For indigenous futurism, technology is inextricable from the social. Human societies are part
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the space NDN reveals the myriad ways of relating to land beyond property.
Colonialism functions in education through rhetorical imperialism, decolonial framing and discourse is key.
Grande, Sandy 2015: Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought, Tenth Anniversary Edition . United States of America. Rowman and Littlefield Publisher Inc. (pp 55-56). Sandy Grande is associate professor and Chair of the Education Department at Connecticut College. Her research interfaces critical Indigenous theories with the concerns of education. In addition to Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought. (HTE)
However the question of sovereignty is resolved politically, there will be significant implications on
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it is and as it should be" (Alfred 1999, 132).
Space junk is already orbitting us, and the aff can never solve the root cause – at best, they only reduce new debris. – but the only way to guarantee debris crashes don’t happen is to actually remove the debris instead of just marginally stopping how much new debris gets created (bucket example can be used in 2n). According to Rhimbassen, private appropriation is key to active debris removal, also known as ADR, the only real, long-term solution to debris,
Maria Lucas-Rhimbassen*, Cristiana Santos*, George Antony Long, Lucien Rapp* 2019, "Conceptual model for a profitable return on investment from space debris as abiotic space resource" https://chaire-sirius.eu/documents/c798f8-eucass-fp0602-1906190421.pdf
Indeed, new technological initiatives evolving around ADR confirm the possibility of recycling space debris
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difficult, which may deter OOS efforts and ADR initiatives such as recyclers.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620982834
With these considerations in mind, let us go back to Chakrabarty’s notion that the
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fruits, also means patience and signifies endurance as a natural and human virtue