Orientalism Critique - SDI 2016 - Orientalism K 1 SDI...

Orientalism K
SDI 3-Week 2016
Orientalism K- SDI 2016
Orientalism K- SDI 2016 ................................................................................................................ 1
1NCs ........................................................................................................................................... 3
1NC-Long ............................................................................................................................... 4
1NC-Short ............................................................................................................................. 19
Links ......................................................................................................................................... 28
Link-Bilateral Investment Treaty .......................................................................................... 29
Link- China Rise ................................................................................................................... 30
Link-Cooperation .................................................................................................................. 38
Link – Containment/Cooperation .......................................................................................... 40
Link – Communism .............................................................................................................. 42
Link-Economic engagement ................................................................................................. 44
Link-Free Trade .................................................................................................................... 49
Link-Institutions ................................................................................................................... 50
Link-Heg/Dem/Econ ............................................................................................................. 51
Link- Media Representations ................................................................................................ 58
Link- Nuke Disarm/Prolif ..................................................................................................... 59
Link-QPQ ............................................................................................................................. 63
Link-Scenario Planning ........................................................................................................ 64
Link-Threat Construction ...................................................................................................... 65
Alternatives ............................................................................................................................... 69
Alt-Chinese Perspectives ...................................................................................................... 70
Alt Pre-Requisite .................................................................................................................. 75
A2: Perm ............................................................................................................................... 79
Impact ....................................................................................................................................... 80
Impact- Colonialism ............................................................................................................. 81
Impact- Dehumanization ....................................................................................................... 82
Link- Neoliberalism .............................................................................................................. 86
Impact-Otherization .............................................................................................................. 89
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Orientalism K
SDI 3-Week 2016
Impact- Xenophobia ............................................................................................................. 90
Western Knowledge Bad ........................................................................................................... 92
Framework ................................................................................................................................ 95
2NC—Framework ................................................................................................................ 96
Discourse Shapes Reality ...................................................................................................... 99
A2: Policymaking ............................................................................................................... 104
AFF Answers .............................................................................................................................. 111
Link ......................................................................................................................................... 112
China wants to cooperate .................................................................................................... 113
Permutation ............................................................................................................................. 116
Perm Solvency .................................................................................................................... 117
AT: Impact .............................................................................................................................. 119
AT: Reps Shape Reality ...................................................................................................... 120
AT: Epistemology Claims Mean No Aff ............................................................................. 122
Prefer Specificity .................................................................................................................... 124
Alternative Answers ................................................................................................................ 125
Alt Fails—Orientalism Wrong ............................................................................................ 126
Alt Fails—Essentialism ...................................................................................................... 130
Alt Fails—Nihilism ............................................................................................................. 132
A2: Said .............................................................................................................................. 136
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Orientalism K
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1NCs
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Orientalism K
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1NC-Long
Western knowledge of the East is grounded in paternalistic imperialism—
supposedly objective and apolitical knowledge claims mask a violent Western
will to power that drives to organize reality around its own set of flawed
foundational assumptions – their “benevolent influence” is just an
epistemological colonialism whose ultimate goal is domination – their
representations justify Western mastery and control.
Anand 07
(Dibyesh, PhD in politics at Bristol University “Western Colonial Representations of
the Other,” New Political Science, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2007,
)
Within the context of European imperialism, the issue of the representation of natives was often considered as
belonging to the realm of scientific objective ethnography, journalistic commentaries, or fiction.2 A clear boundary was
said to exist between fiction and non-fiction writing. It was presumed that, unlike fiction, non-fiction writing such as
literary and popular journalism, exploration and travel writings, memoirs of colonial officials, and so on is unmediated
by the consciously aesthetic requirements of imaginative literature.3 Emphasis was on the recording of observed facts.
However, as argued by scholars from fields as diverse as postcolonial studies,4 anthropology,5 and international
relations,6 such views are no
longer tenable
.
Starting with Said,7 the enterprise of postcolonial theory has unpacked
the notion of neutral academic expertise and highlighted how
Western knowledge and representations of the
non-Western world are neither innocent nor based on some pre-existing “reality,” but implicated
in the West’s will to power,
and its imperial adventures
. The image of a scientific, apolitical,
disinterested, knowledge-seeking “gentleman” braving all odds to study non-Western cultures has been revealed as
hollow.