Tournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula AY | Judge: Jonah Gentleman
Our thesis is this – settler colonialism is not an event, but an evolving structure of technologies – a patterning of social relations that renders land and life ripe for biopolitical destruction and ontological genocide. the current political system excludes natives. In the current system, civil rights are not afforded to the indigenous, silencing their voice once again.
Paperson 17 (La Paperson, University of Minnesota Press, ""Land. And the University Is Settler Colonial" in "A Third University Is Possible" on Manifold @uminnpress", 2017, https://manifold.umn.edu/read/a-third-university-is-possible/section/561c45d2-9442-42d5-9938-f8c9e2aafcfc~~#ch02)
Land is the prime concern of settler colonialism, contexts in which the colonizer comes
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and its "natural" people. discourse, if not common sense?
Rifkin 14 (Mark Rifkin, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania-2003, M.A. University of Pennsylvania-1999, B.A. Rutgers University-1996 Dr. Rifkin's research primarily focuses on Native American writing and politics from the eighteenth century onward, exploring the ways that Indigenous peoples have negotiated U.S. racial and imperial formations. His work explores the roles of gender, sexuality, affect, and eroticism in those processes, addressing legal and administrative frameworks, textual representations, and forms of everyday experience. Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of North Carolina 'Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance,' June 2014 pages 7-10)
If nineteenth-century American literary studies tends to focus on the ways Indians enter
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through which U.S. settler colonialism enacts itself " (xix).
Grande 18 (Professor of Education and Director of the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity at Connecticut University (Sandy, "Refusing the University", Edited by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Published by Routledge Press)
As policies and politics of recognition have come to increasingly condition Indigenous-state relations
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have been systematically replaced with strategies for individualized incorporation in the settler order.
The aff's spectacularized claim of extinction is an act of settler futurity that hides the ongoing violence of settler colonialism. The aff has an investment in the end of the world to create a sense of vulnerability at the expense of decolonization. Settlers fantasize about their own death day and night, looking for an excuse to justify further exploitation of indigenous people. Their narrative of is an act of colonialism and the 1NC is the ACT OF RESISTANCE.
Dalley 16 (Hamish Dalley, Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 2013, and is now an Assistant Professor of English at Daemen College, Amherst, New York, where he is responsible for teaching in World and Postcolonial Literatures., (2016): The deaths of settler colonialism: extinction as a metaphor of decolonization in contemporary settler literature, Settler Colonial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2016.1238160)
Settlers love to contemplate the possibility of their own extinction; to read many contemporary
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effects that shape much of the contemporary literature emerging from white colonial settings.
The alternative is to demand decolonization and abolition. The starting point for our revolution is an act of resistance and abolition. We refuse to sit aside while indigenous populations are subject to horrors that the settler ignores. Indigenous rights must be the foundation of our movement, or colonial violence will continue to be replicated.
Tuck and Yang 18 (Eve Tuck Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities at the University of Toronto, K. Wayne Yang Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California at San Diego, 2018, "Introduction: Born Under the Rising Sun of Social Justice," Toward What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education, Edited by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Published by Routledge Press, ISBN: 978-1-351-24093-2, pp. 1-18)
Decolonization is the rematriation of Indigenous land and life. Decolonization, similar to abolition
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decolonization, rather than abolition births Black life or decolonization births Indigenous futures.
Tuck and Gaztambide-Fernandez 13 (Eve Tuck and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernandez, "Curriculum, Replacement, and Settler Futurity," Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2013, p. 72-89)
Natty Bumppo, not savage, and no longer European, is positioned to claim
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been sidelined and reappropriated in ways that reinscribe settler colonialism and settler futurity.
Pinkard 13 ~2013, Lynice Pinkard, "Revolutionary Suicide: Risking Everything to Transform Society and Live Fully", Tikkun 2013 Volume 28, Number 4: 31-41, http://tikkun.dukejournals.org/content/28/4/31.full~~
I'd like to present an alternative to conventional identity politics, one that requires that
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in each of our lives, let's look at what we're up against.