Tournament: Byram Hills | Round: 2 | Opponent: Aaron Shao | Judge: Clement Agho-Otoghile
Successful decolonization demands recognition of how dominant power hierarchies function, a necessity for all exploring any non-Western knowledge.
Pratt et al 1 (Pratt, Yvonne Poitras, The University of Calgary. Dustin Louie, The University of Calgary. Aubrey Hanson, The University of Calgary. Jacqueline Ottmann, University of Saskatchewan./ “Indigenous Education and Decolonization.”/January 2018/ Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education) (atang)
Colonizing is the physical and ideological domination of peoples in order to separate them from their culture and resources, while creating external and internalized assumptions of the supremacy of the colonizer.
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Such knowledges arise from the collective experiences and understandings of a people.
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ROB Thus, the Role of the Ballot is to endorse the better strategy against colonialist violence.
Necropolitics Advantage
The advantage is necropolitics.
Medicinal IP policy is a violent tool of the private sector, justifying distribution disparities in the name of economic benefit and future innovation to kick developing countries and marginalized communities to the curb.
Hull 21 (Gordon, Professor in the Department of Philosophy @ UNC charlotte, Director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, focuses on moral and political philosophy, problems that emerge at the intersection of philosophy, law, and technology in the area of intellectual property and/or privacy./ “THE NECROPOLITICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY”/APRIL 28 2021/NEWAPPS/ACCESSED 7-8-21) (https://www.newappsblog.com/2021/04/the-necropolitics-of-intellectual-propert.html) (SPHS, AL)
In my Biopolitics of Intellectual Property, I argue that IP policy has shifted from what I call a “public biopolitics” model to a neoliberal version.
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This is not a hard call, and that Pharma is dispatching armies of Malthusian lobbyists to deflect from it says everything you need to know.
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These laws exist as a way to construct a racial hierarchy and assert white supremacy
Vats 13 (Anjali, dissertation for doctor of phil “CREATED DIFFERENCES: RHETORICS OF RACE AND RESISTANCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW”/2013/UWASH/Accessed 7-8-21) (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/23464/Vats_washington_0250E_11939.pdf?isAllowed=yandsequence=1) (SPHS, AL)
This is not to say that racialization does not occur within in the context of discussions of trademarks, patents, and copyrights individually.
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Not only does this promote unjust distributions of access to information but also understandings of race.
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Thus, I affirm that the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to eliminate intellectual property protections for medicines.
Racism is imbedded within intellectual property systems – creatorship has been seen as a form of whiteness since the time of slavery.
Parthasarathy 20: Parthasarathy, Shobita. Shobita Parthasarathy is professor of public policy and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy programme at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and author of Patent Politics “Racism is baked into patent systems” Nature, 2020. JP
In The Color of Creatorship, law scholar Anjali Vats focuses on how racism has shaped intellectual-property systems.
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It has little truck with the creative fruits of the kitchen, forest, farm or workshop
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Interrogation and restructuring of the IP regime solves for the violent monopoly of pharmaceuticals
Gopakumar 15 (K. M. , legal advisor and senior researcher with the Third World Network / “Twenty years of TRIPS agreement and access to medicine: a development perspective,”/2015/Indian Journal of International Law 55, 367–404) (https://link.springer.com/article/10.10072Fs40901-016-0022-7)
The two decades of TRIPS show clearly that the compulsory product patent regime succeeded in increasing the monopoly of pharmaceutical TNCS in new medicine market.
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Scrapping of the compulsory product patent protection under the TRIPS Agreement is critical to serve this purpo
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New discourses that expose the internal contradictions and disarticulate from current racially exclusionary norms of IP results in resistance of racialization and reconceptualization of “IP crime”.
Vats 13 (Anjali, dissertation for doctor of phil “CREATED DIFFERENCES: RHETORICS OF RACE AND RESISTANCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW”/2013/UWASH/Accessed 7-8-21) (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/23464/Vats_washington_0250E_11939.pdf?isAllowed=yandsequence=1) (SPHS, AL)
The association of infringement of intellectual properties with race occurs through the consistent articulation of trademark, patent, and copyright violations with identities and characteristics understood as linked to racial Otherness.
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In this context, the remythologization of intellectual property’s racialization is a productive process through which new understandings of the interface between the legal regime and difference evolves and dominant narratives of identity are reconstituted.