Tournament: Westpoint | Round: 2 | Opponent: Rochester Lim-White | Judge: Waldinger
We begin with "The Ban and the Wolf" from giorgio agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life: 

Agamben 98
(Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, p. 63, Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen , Stanford University Press Stanford California 1998, http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/biopolitics/HomoSacer.pdf)

"The entire character of homo sacer … while belonging to neither  —

State of Exception has gone global in the form of American Exceptionalism
Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.143-144)

"It has been primarily … the 'camp'—is latent"
We reconstellate the story of Billy Budd, Sailor and the proleptic warning Melville brings us of the ship of state the bellipotent aka HMS War Powers, which is the American exceptionalist jeremiad that produces endless violence and the world as a site for interventionist policies. This interweaving of Agamben’s and Spanos’ political methodologies is integral
Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.3)

" is the American exceptionalist ship of state …arbitrary policing mechanism permanent"

Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.146)
"embarking on a domestic … production of bare life"
Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.160)
"thus inaugurate a … stripped of their humanity.”

Agamben similarly warns of the dangers of metaphysical violence and the State of Exception and warns of the impending biopolitical catastrophe 

Agamben 98
(Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, p. 63, Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen , Stanford University Press Stanford California 1998, http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/biopolitics/HomoSacer.pdf)

"how it was possible for … unprecedented biopolitical catastrophe"
The biopolitical catastrophe is inevitable within the framework of metaphysical imperialism, and for spanos,
Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.144-145)
 "The tendency of the … American 'democratic' setting."
 Also, spanos critiques nearly all who have "addressed this urgent contemporary issue" and failed to consider american exceptionalism:
 Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.146)
"To be specific, … peculiar character and power,"
Nor any the current european, asian, african, and american commentators on biopolitics, biopwer, and the like —one consequence of subscribing to schmitt's
Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.201)
"conservative secular …whom I have referred"
 spanos further explicates this metaphysical friend/enemy binary that ontologically situates identity before difference, much as the aff's approach to the topic, their advocacy:
Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.146)
" For Schmitt (and … the enemy (the 'them')"
 Fortunately, melville offers an alternative approach for this debate that attends to the myth of american exceptionalism and ontological imperialism, states of emergency and exception, homo sacer and bare life, for example, opening another way through this year's biopolitical debate topic and their aff advocacy:  so, vote neg to render inoperative the  exception that founds the topic, their advocacy, and ours in an ontological imperialist binary, a biopolitical suspension that seeks war to the (competitive) death: vote neg to combine our respective advocacies into intimate antagonism and agonic play, that is, a "loving strife"
 Spanos 11
(William, Distinguished Professor of English Binghamton University, The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Sailor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, p.162-163)

"the 'theologically' ordained friend/foe … a 'loving strife' (Auseinandersetzung)"

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Georgia CS | Judge: Mccaffrey, Russel, Munoz
Why is it that settlement or place is so frequently characterized as bounded, as enclosure, and as directly counterposed to spaces as flows?
        —Doreen Massey, Space, Place, and Gender
The physical is easier to achieve
a boundary drawn to separate people
Navajos say no word exists establishing
form to the air we breathe.

       —Esther Belin, “On Relocation”
The politics of place in Native American studies is very tricky both socially and politically. While conceptions of Native identity are legislated differently depending on governing nation-states, tribal government systems, histories, and cultural differences, they share spatialized tendencies, identity, social relations, and politics are often conceived, represented, and determined as geographically and historically situated and bound to a particular community. This grounding, even while considered abject space by the settler state, is of utmost importance to the imaginative geographies that create the material consequences of everyday existence for Native people, even while the historical onslaught of legislation continues to rip that grounding out from under Native people. In contemporary politics—and over the last two hundred years—Native communities have been depicted and conceived as transitory, dying communities, despite the reality of vitality and strength of Native people who refuse to give up ground to the forces of settler-colonialism. Yet, in order not to cede the ground, we must also begin to scrutinize the impact of spatial policies in our cognitive mapping of Native lands and bodies. Beyond examining the discursive frameworks located in specific historical, political, and cultural moments, we must also think critically about “sets of choices, omissions, uncertainties, and intentions” that are “critical to, yet obscured within” the mapping of the body polity and nation-state. How do we uproot settler maps that drive our everyday materiality and realities?  
Thus begins Mishuana Goeman’s magnificent 09 article “Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice,” two epigraphs, a state of the discipline, and what we hear as a call to us in his debate classroom, in Bloomington, Indiana, frequent home to the Potawatomi in the 16th and early 17th centuries. By the end of the 18th century, the Potawatomi Mission Bandwere displaced by disease and white settlement and were indefinitely detained on reservations far from these lands.  Vote neg to scrutinize our cognitive maps of Native lands and bodies in this debate, to examine the discursive frameworks that orient all our spatial and other policies, especially those at the intersection of topical war powers and indigneneity, and to attend to what is not in their 1ac or the debate topic, especially what was excluded from their political map.  Vote neg to repudiate their 1ac map that orients this debate as a colonial practice hell-bent on completing the Native American genocide, administratively and cognitively.  Therefore, vote neg for Goeman’s Native feminist spatial practice to “uproot settler maps” and for "(re)mapping landscapes.”  Recalling Esther Belin’s beautiful (lyrical and spatial) deconstructive dance, a profundity only glimpsed in the epigraph’s unraveling of boundaries, imperial spaces, and colonial relocation practices, we can redraw these (debate) maps and landscapes “in order not to cede the ground.”  Here is Belin’s brilliant On Relocation:
The physical is easier to achieve
a boundary drawn to separate people
Navajos say no word exists
establishing form to the air we breathe. 

This country’s stem
relocation
rooted for invasion
imperial in destiny. 

WORKING, MEN
IN PROGRESS 

Stand and wait for crossblood babies
generic cultures blending new versions of red nations
brain-dead at birth from pollution ingested
umbilical cord of sweet grain alcohol and sticky TV diaries.

WHO IS TO SAY?
crossblood babies
relocated at birth.
Goeman finds in Belin’s poetry compelling support for incisive kritiks of the spatial practices of their1ac: kritiking its social orderings, embedding alt

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Georgia CS | Judge: Mccaffrey, Russel, Munoz
Their impact scenarios paint over the indigenous struggle. Preoccupied with the fantasy of a “global nuclear war”, the USFG ignores the nuclear war it wages on indigenous peoples every day- for natives the apocalypse has already come
Kato 93
(Masahide Kato, Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze, Source: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 339-360 Published by: Sage Publications, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40644779 Accessed: 24/08/2012)TR

Let us recall our earlier discussion about the critical historical conjuncture where the notion of
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happening in the Fourth World and Indigenous Nations almost on a daily basis.

1) And group their permutation destroys dialogue- which is the key internal link to addressing the harms of environmental degradation. Liberalism in the name of energy efficiency will continue to impose itself over onto indigenous knowledge. Only voting negative in this debate for spatial politics allows you to have the self-reflexivity that is necessary in politics to avert extinction

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Mary Jane Zimmerman, PhD, Studies Native ways of knowing and healing with traditional “Diné” elder Leon Secatero, as well as continuing her studies in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology. She currently teaches literature and honors classes at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque, NM. Being Nature’s Mind: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Planetary Consciousness, http://www.earthspirituality.org/archive/zimmerman_seminar.htm)

Since 1999, I have participated in the Language of Spirituality dialogues between Native Americans
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still embody the relational ways of knowing which have atrophied in the West. 

And performative DA- they cannot just co-opt the poetry we read and the way in which we undermine discursive sovereignty because their idea of hegemony is one that constantly seeks to destroy indigenous peoples’ This is not a blanket claim that the usfg is bad, it is a specific instance. It is their burden to prove when a state policy has ever been good for indigenous peoples’

2. Despite the affirmative’s laudable goals, regimes of energy efficiency discursively frame the Earth as nothing more than a standing reserve which, instead of being exploited quickly, is preserved to be rendered perpetually useful to humanity.
Timothy W. Luke, Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,1999, Discourses of the Environment, p. 146-47

The application of enviro-discipline expresses the authority of eco-knowledgeable, geo
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other natural amenities’ (ibid.3). Survival is the key value.
3. Entire industries are salivating at the thought of the plan – making consumption more environmentally-friendly is an attractive label for consumers, allowing corporations to further their control over the global environment by painting themselves as responsible stewards.
Timothy W. Luke, Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,1999, Discourses of the Environment, p. 141-42

In some sectors or at a few sites, ecologically more rational participation in some
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want to control how forests, rivers, farms or wildlife are used?
4. Group their first couple arguments about case outweighs, the ballot framing question, and why you should prioritize fiat and nuclear war in this debate- Their impact scenarios paint over the indigenous struggle. Preoccupied with the fantasy of a “global nuclear war”, the USFG ignores the nuclear war it wages on indigenous peoples every day- for natives the apocalypse has already come
Kato 93
(Masahide Kato, Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze, Source: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 339-360 Published by: Sage Publications, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40644779 Accessed: 24/08/2012)TR

Let us recall our earlier discussion about the critical historical conjuncture where the notion of
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happening in the Fourth World and Indigenous Nations almost on a daily basis.

And Assimilation D/A- Their insistence on a state in the first instance is one that is violent and destructive to indigenous peoples- and is one that they cannot sever out of- do not forget the specificity here, b/c they will leverage that ours is a blanket claim.

Alfred 11
(Taiaiake, prof at U Victoria BC, Colonialism and Its Legacies, p. 95)

You may be wondering how it is that I fail to appreciate the efforts to
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to beat the beast into bloody submission, and teach it to behave.
Aff alone is best - Combination means there is a risk repressive versions of pedagogy win out

Grande 4 (Sandy, Associate Professor of Education at Connecticut College, Ph.D., Kent State University, Fellow in the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, member of the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Indigenous People’s Work Group, “Red Pedagogy”, pg. 142-143, og)

Though Maher and Ward promote a "radical politics of difference," they¶ ultimately
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many, including the maintenance of social control by the¶ dominant class.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Georgia CS | Judge: Mccaffrey, Russel, Munoz
Scholarship
Spatial politics determine how we debate – Flowing, refutation, and what counts as argument are all determined by the spaces where we debate.   Form and content are inseparable and co-constitutive.   We must be able to debate in a way that fits with the arguments we are making.  Every argument we make applies to all of theirs, requiring early synthesis, improving argument development, ensuring better debates.  Evaluate this debate holistically.
Our Abolitionist Praxis and Genocidal Analytic are key to fight domination– Extend our 1nc Dylan Rodriguez evidence; he indicates there is an “urgency imperative” in the academy to produce frames of analysis that can point to the colonial/racial violence perpetuated through the academy. Orientation toward local genocidal history is key to explanatory power of our scholarship and understanding privilege and how it functions in spaces like debate. In describing how his own UC Riverside’s existence on a native burial ground means that, “desecration is not an incidental and fleeting moment in the campus’s creation, it is the continual condition of UCR’s existence as such,” Rodriguez is explaining that places like the academy are predicated on

Jason Baird Jackson, Assistant Professor of Folklore at Indiana University explains,

Indiana University is a major, multi- campus research university located in the homelands
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, and our univer- sitys, name literally means Indian Country.  

Spatial Politics D/A- Our reorientation of space through native feminist spatial politics is necessary for debate and critical to scholarship on/for indigenous peoples. Extend Goeman- unproblematic affirmation of USFG policy is settler colonial mapping that repeats what Goeman refers to as the violent “omissions, uncertainties, and intentions” that are “critical to, yet obscured within” the mapping of the body polity and nation-state”. Rodriguez explains that these omissions mean framework is built upon flawed scholarship that leaves the university space unexamined – And hegemony’s assumption of US inevitability is nonsense and violent scholarship because it denies indigenous peoples everyday life- Reclamation of Potawatomi space undoes these mapping formations, Goeman explains further that

Goeman 9
(Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice Mishuana R. Goeman Wicazo Sa Review, Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2009, pp. 169-187 (Article) Published by University of Minnesota Press)TR

The politics of place in Native American studies is very tricky both socially and politically
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How do we uproot settler maps that drive our everyday materiality and realities?
Eurocentric Knowledge D/A- Their scholarship and performance of USFG simulation is ontologically violent and unconditional –this creates serial policy failure because the world does not exist the way you think it does. Every affirmative argument in this debate, especially USFG simulation assumes a Cartesian subjectivity where a static world outside of humanity is fixable and knowable, rather than the complex, contingent, and unknowable world that is constantly being produced differently in different spaces. Assuming that responses to worldly politics or topic should be the same in every space is the very reason indigenous policy always fails, assuming space is homogenous turns benign policies into genocidal assimilation and destruction, like generic Indian Housing Initiatives. Deloria explains further how

Deloria 98
(Vine Deloria of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, he was an American Indian author, theologian, historian, and activist, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America , 1998)

For the history of Western thinking in the past eight centuries has been one of
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a transformation, and will avoid the traditional replacement of words with new words

AT: Donahue and Koh- Violent Framing

Grande 4
 (Sandy, Associate Professor of Education at Connecticut College, Ph.D., Kent State University, Fellow in the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, member of the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Indigenous People’s Work Group, “Red Pedagogy”, pg. 142-143)

Like other whitestream thinkers, however, Dewey's vision for an educational system presumed the
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deep connections among the Earth, its beings, and the spirit world.
Heg
The aff’s scholarship is fatally flawed and representative of the banalized thought which has produced the colonial genocide upon indigenous people’s at home and abroad. Your attempt to garner legitimate hegemony through selling a global image of a cleaner more ethical military is not radical but merely the next in a long line of thoughtless reports of political elites from the Pentagon and their lackey’s attempting to “sell” military dominance to global indigenous peoples like its McDonald’s or a Mac computer. This methodological approach reduces the Other to mere utility, adding fuel to a global “War of attrition against Terror” that produces global genocide, increasing backlash, flawed Cartesian subjectivity, and bankrupt education, turning the aff fundamentally 

Spanos 8
(William Spanos is a man who’s seen some real shit and probably has a thing or two to teach you, Global American: The Devastation of Language under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm, Published in symplok?, Vol. 16, No. 1/2, Anonymity (2008) by the University of Nebraska Press, p. 196-205)TR

This increasing deterioration of language and thinking in America to which Graham Greene (among
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is a typical summary statement of the "vision" of the report:

 It is an oft-cited lament that a nation with the vast skills
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imbued from boot camp to combat and beyond .... (74-75) 

What is astonishing in the typical discourse of the Rand Corporation report - so reminiscent
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primary and secondary sources of their report as a brief random sampling suggests: 

The White House had launched several recent initiatives designed to promote the coordination of U
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is not how you treat your customers. (Anonymous interviewee, 57) 

If we are attuned to the relentless critique of representation that begins with Heidegger's de
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them put it to the reporter Ron Suskind, who make "reality": 

The aid a " senior advisor in the George W. Bush administration"
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will be left to just study what we do." (Suskind 2004) 

And insofar as official America relies on the inordinate successfulness of the "shaping operations
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into the reality of the democratic masses: their language and their thinking.
Four
 Let me now, after this long detour, return to Hannah Arendt' s
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very same time that it always already and necessarily speaks it "name."

International norms predicated on Exceptionalist notions of hegemony turn international cooperation and effectiveness- things like Kyoto Protocol prove that American Environmental Leadership will fail and produce backlash abroad

Saito 10
Natsu Taylor,  Meeting the Enemy : American Exceptionalism and International Law.
New York, NY, USA: New York University Press (NYU Press), 2010. p 1.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/binghamton/Doc?id=10428922andppg=46
Copyright © 2010. New York University Press (NYU Press)TR

In January 2009 President Barack Obama took office “amidst gathering clouds and raging storms
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and the fragile state of the environment on which we all depend.
SHE CONTINUES
A second line of criticism emphasizes the value of legal institutions but tends to focus
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know it poses an imminent threat to the environment of the entire planet.

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 7 | Opponent: Gonzaga | Judge: Izak
The 1NC Contains Performance and Poetry. For Harvard it was simulated waterboarding and affirmation of the "terrorist assemblage" which confuses easy identification mechanisms which frame and produce the War on Terror and homonationalism.

Genealogy of Harvard University, its indigenous peoples, flaura, fauna. We analyze privilege in the place we debate to situate our critique of biopolitical violence

Endangered Species Handbook, Animal Welfare Institute, 2005http:www.endangeredspecieshandbook.org/dinos_eastern.php, Swanton, John R. 

The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145, Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter (Harvard, 2002), 

These are the footnotes for the rest of the 1nc which is given in poetic form and contains quotes from the following sources which develop a criticsm of homonationalism, identitarian politics and their inclusive/exclusion paradigm. We also argue that the structures of oppression and racism are constantly in flux and recodified, thus we must use our bodies and the spaces we inhabit to problematize the way identities are violently construed in debate and beyond

Puar’07 (Jasbir, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Terrorist Assemblages Homonationalism Queer Times p. xi-xii

Puar’07 (Jasbir, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Terrorist Assemblages Homonationalism Queer Times, p.183-184)pg

Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 131)/ds

Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg 36-37)/ds

Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 113-115)/ds

Du Bois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk, New York: New American Library, Inc, 1903.http://www.bartleby.com/114/2.html - retrieved on 10/16/13

Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 130-131)/ds

Tournament: Shirley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Michigan Batra-Jacome | Judge: KOSLOW
Harvard 1NC + New Terrorist Drag Performance

Terror Drag
Puar 7 (Jasbir, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Terrorist Assemblages Homonationalism Queer Times p. 12-21)

Tournament: Westpoint | Round: 4 | Opponent: Vermont Lee | Judge: Turnage
The 1NC Contains Performance and Poetry. For West Point it was playing of dissonant counterpoint music (Henry Cowell, Four Encorse to Dynamic Motion, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntxQHGv6SBs) and affirmation of its political power to break from metaphysically violent and exceptionalist structures of thought. New metaphors of knowledge and disconnected perspectivism allows for radical ontological reorientation

Bartine 13
(David, Chair of English Department Binghamton University,Musical Elaborations in Sound and Sight in the Work of Charles Seeger and Hans Richter
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Volume 15, Number 1, 2013, pp.
25-28, Published by Penn State University Press, Project Muse)

In his extensive efforts to counter...ideals of order, discipline, and harmony

Genealogy of West Point, its indigenous peoples, flaura, fauna. We analyze privilege in the place we debate to situate our critique of biopolitical violence

Endangered Species Handbook, Animal Welfare Institute, 2005http:www.endangeredspecieshandbook.org/dinos_eastern.php, Swanton, John R. 

The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145, Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter (Harvard, 2002), 

These are the footnotes for the rest of the 1nc which is given in poetic form and contains quotes from the following sources which develop a criticsm of homonationalism, identitarian politics and their inclusive/exclusion paradigm. We also argue that the structures of oppression and racism are constantly in flux and recodified, thus we must use our bodies and the spaces we inhabit to problematize the way identities are violently construed in debate and beyond

Puar’07 (Jasbir, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Terrorist Assemblages Homonationalism Queer Times p. xi-xii

Puar’07 (Jasbir, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Terrorist Assemblages Homonationalism Queer Times, p.183-184)pg

Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 131)/ds

Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg 36-37)/ds

Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 113-115)/ds

Du Bois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk, New York: New American Library, Inc, 1903.http://www.bartleby.com/114/2.html - retrieved on 10/16/13

Dabashi 11 (Hamid, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, “Brown Skin, White Masks,” Pluto Press, January 18th, pg. 130-131)/ds

Tournament: Shirley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Northwestern Miles-Vellayappan | Judge: Gordon
William Spanos, in his 2013 book, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, helps contextualize our negation of their exceptionalist policy which ensures shock and awe violence

Spanos 13
(William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, p.155)

. . . the phrase “American exceptionalism” …spectacular techno-military-industrial errand in the global wilderness possible. 

He continues to develop his genealogy of American exceptionalism, indirectly indicting utopian policymaking and violent metaphysical thought in the modern War on Terror

Spanos 13
(William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, p.174)

. . . The . . . Bush administration . . . unleashed a massive reinterpretation of the Constitution could be practiced with immunity.

Exceptionalism carries on the metaphysical tradition which has produced banal thought in academia and global thought itself.  
Spanos 8
(William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2)

… The project of thinking or … traditionalists it was intended to disarm.

Current political practices exclude the ontological Other
Spanos 8
(William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2-3)

"an especially urgent imperative … dangerous phase.

Vietnam exemplifies the failure of the exceptionalist ethos which is mobilizing in the War on Terror
Spanos 8
(William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 95-97)

". . . As the sporadic and dispersed …or the annihilation of the planet."

Conventional political thought reduces the indissoluble continuum of being to reified Being
Spanos 8
(William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 2)

 "the (temporal) be-ing…sociopolitics, to a reified entity."  

We affirm the exilic thinking that escapes disciplinary reduction and remains in time.  
Spanos 8
(William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 42-43)

Most commentators’ ac¬counts … imperial prac¬tice of liberal humanist capitalism.

Trevor and I affirm the topical exile that, through an inclusive exclusion, belongs to their aff. Specifically this is the targeted and killed, indefinitely detained, offensive techs, and/or introduced soldiers depending on the affirmative. 

Following Spanos, we overdetermine  
Spanos 8
(William V., English Professor @ Binghamton University, “American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization—The specter of Vietnam, p. 29)

. . . the ontological perspective …the post-Cold War conjuncture.

Tournament: Jerseyinvitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: CUNY McIntyre-Joseph | Judge: Rowles
We begin with the great Alan Gallay, emeritus at Ohio State, where he holds the Warner R. Woodring Chair in Atlantic World and Early American History, and constellates his research in Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and the Origins of Globalization, Comparative Empires, and Race, Ethnicity, and Nation.  He received many awards, including Columbia's 03 Bancroft Prize, for The Indian Slave Trade: the Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717, and is considered an expert in slavery in Colonial America.  He writes elsewhere:

Gallay 3
Alan, "Forgotten Story of Indian Slavery", Arab News (www.aljazeera.info), August 3, 2003. and at: http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1362//TR

When Americans think of …returning runaway slaves.

Reorientation of our relationship to this space through the stories told in place activate our decolonial politics and restructure our frameworks of understanding.  Opening these spaces for Lenni-Lenape to tell stories here help us to forge alternative approaches to familiar problems.  Mishuana Goeman of the Tonawanda Seneca, who is Vice Chair and Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA writes in 2008: 

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Mishuana Goeman- Tonawanda Seneca, Vice Chair and Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, 2008, From Place to Territories and Back Again: Centering Storied Land  in the discussion of Indigenous Nation-building http://www.isrn.qut.edu.au/pdf/ijcis/IJCIS.Goeman.pdf)//TR

The “rhetorical tools” of … depend upon  it.
  
Records were kept of their matrilineal history using wampum belts, song sticks, and wooden tablets, allowing us an impartial, situated perspective of their communities and requiring us to suture their avowedly imperfect narrative into our debating here.  Thus, we clear space in our decidedly limited speeches for Lenni-Lenapes to speak here, albeit via a recording and at a distance (Many different stories used, all can be found on):

http://www.talk-lenape.org/stories.php

Tournament: Texas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Oklahoma Langel-Wyde | Judge: Johnson
Criticism of the Scholarship of the Affirmative in Relationship to Space and Place. Critical interrogation is necessary to ontologically and epistemologically change research practice and debate to stop settler colonial genocide.

History of Ndé genocide in place and counter-archive 

Margo Tamez, “Place and Perspective in the Shadow of the Wall: Recovering Ndé Knowledge and Self-Determination in Texas,” Aztlán:A Journal of Chicano Studies, Spring, 2013 (38:1) 167-74.

“Ndé lineal and inherent relationships with homelands near, along, and across the Rio Grande River…confronts the nation-state and the state of Texas.  

Spatial politics is integral for conceptualization of freedom

Thomas Dumm, Professor at Amherst College, “Foucault and the Politics of Freedom”

“In short, it is now difficult to doubt that questions of space…we have established it and the representations that have given rise to our political orders.”

Their relationship to scholarship and the world reifies Eurocentric norms

Vine DeLoria Jr., “For This Land”

“Numerous examples can be cited to show…themselves new ways of conceiving solutions.”

Radical academic scholarship is key here

Dylan Rodríguez is professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. Author of 2 books, he is a founding member of Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex, a national movement-building collective that seeks to fulfill the social and historical vision of abolition. Racial/Colonial Genocide and the “Neoliberal Academy”:In Excess of a Problematic, American Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 4, December 2012, Project Muse)TR

“Framed in the long historical scope of modernity…and scholars whose work is mutually nourishing and critically enabling.”

Tournament: D8ndtqualifier | Round: 3 | Opponent: CUNY Singh-Ayaz | Judge: Jackson, Strange
We read this first section of the article below
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(Mishuana R., Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Gender Studies @ UCLA," Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice," Wicazo Sa Review (Volume 24, Number 2: Fall 2009) 169-70)TR

Why is it that settlement or place is so frequently characterized as bounded... uproot settler maps that drive our everyday materiality and realities? 

Thus begins Mishuana Goeman’s magnificent 09 article “Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice,” two epigraphs, a state of the discipline, and what we hear as a call to us in his districts debate classroom, in Danbury, Connecticut…

Vote neg to repudiate their 1ac map that orients this debate as a colonial practice hell-bent on completing the Native American genocide, administratively and cognitively.  

Therefore, vote neg for Goeman’s Native feminist spatial practice to “uproot settler maps” and for "(re)mapping landscapes.”  

Belin’s brilliant On Relocation:

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(Esther, “From the Belly of My Beauty,” Winner of the American Book Award, Sun Tracks, University of Arizona Press)

The physical... at birth. 

Goeman finds in Belin’s poetry compelling support for incisive kritiks of the spatial practices of their 1ac: kritiking its social orderings, embedding alternative epistemologies into its topical debates about war powers, affecting its material practices that take place here and now, all of which order the neg’s indigenous spatial practices and politics and each of which provides a unique reason to vote neg.

Goeman continues to develop her Native feminist spatial practice:

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(Mishuana R., Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Gender Studies @ UCLA," Notes toward a Native Feminism’s Spatial Practice," Wicazo Sa Review (Volume 24, Number 2: Fall 2009))/TR

Belin’s poetry is an example ... we unbury the generative roots of spatial colonization and lay bare its concealed systems. 

Vote neg to narrate spatial relations that decolonize this debate classroom, rather than code and cover over old and new genocidal systems of producing settler colonial maps and spaces.
Raka Shome, an independent scholar living in New York, wrote an article entitled “Space Matters: The Power and Practice of Space” that helps further explain the immense theoretical relevance of indigenous spaces, their identities and politics are heterogeneously reworked in places.

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(Raka, “Space Matters: The Power and Practice of Space, “Communication Theory, vol. 13, no. 1 (2003) 43)/WS

If, as Doreen Massey (1995) suggests, spatialities of power constitute and reconstitute our identities, then we need to think of space...space and place through which identities are continually reworked, contested, and reproduced. 

…former Interior Secretary Gale Norton testified that she was threatened with firing if she didn’t reverse the Tribes acknowledgement, but no undue political influence was exerted*

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(Gale Courey ,“Judge denies Schaghticoke federal recognition appeal,” Indian Country Today, 9/5/08 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2008/09/05/judge-denies-schaghticoke-federal-recognition-appeal-79895 retrieved 2/16/14.

Just cited, no evidence read

We return to the incomparable Alan Gallay, emeritus at Ohio State, Woodring Chair in Atlantic World and Early American History, received Columbia's 03 Bancroft Prize for The Indian Slave Trade, writes in Al Jazeera, also 03:

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(Alan, "Forgotten Story of Indian Slavery", Arab News (www.aljazeera.info), August 3, 2003, http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1362/TR

When Americans think of slavery...if we look more closely we find Indians not only enslaved on plantations but working as police forces to maintain those plantations and receiving substantial rewards for returning runaway slaves. 

Vote neg to produce different maps that overlay Indian slavery and the Indian slave trade onto the already incredibly productive racial turn in debate..

We have begun our institutional labor against racist and colonial violence in debate through our research, debating, and activism, including beginning to build a counter-archive in our debating since Monmouth and online at caselist.com. 

Vote neg in this academic setting to denaturalize and dismantle these massively violent structures of production and reproduction, to help Native feminist and other spatial practices thrive in debate, and to produce this debate space as a place for innovation, mutuality, and urgently needed confrontations with debate’s long history of complicities with racial/colonial genocide.