Contention One: “The Greatest Threat”
Yemen today appears filtered through the lens of imperialist knowledge: a cultural backwaters of tribal violence – these descriptions are not neutral but created through the repetitive snippets of media coverage that sustain the very backwardness they attempt to resolve
Blumi 11 (Isa Blumi, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University’s History Deparment and Middle East Institute and author of numerous articles on the modern Middle East’s history that focus especially on late imperial rivalries in the Araian Gulf and Yemen, Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism, Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2011, pg. 13-16)
Scholars have long ... of indigenous realities.
THE SPREAD OF THE IMPERIALIST EPISTEMOLOGIES CREATED ABOUT YEMEN IS PART OF A LARGER DISCURSIVE STRUCTURE THAT MAKES MACRO-SCALE VIOLENCE INEVITABLE
BATUR 7 [Pinar Batur, PhD @ UT-Austin – Prof. of Scociology @ Vassar, ‘7 [“The Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” in Handbook of the The Soiology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, eds. Vera and Feagin, p. 446-7]
At the turn ... genocide, in Darfur.
AMERICA’S RELATIONSHIP TO YEMEN REMAINS INSCRIBED AND LIMITED TO THE FLAWED KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION OF THE WAR ON TERROR. WHAT YEMEN IS AND CAN BE IS CONFINED TO WHAT THE DRONES SEE AND WHO THEY KILL
BLUMI 11 (Isa Blumi, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University’s History Deparment and Middle East Institute and author of numerous articles on the modern Middle East’s history that focus especially on late imperial rivalries in the Araian Gulf and Yemen, Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism, Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2011, pg. 2-4)
As if this ...
the violence in different parts of the country.
Institutionalized fear of Al Qaeda in Yemen spreads even devoid of any truth content – these portrayals only bolster AQAP narratives about US imperialism, converting warnings into self-fulfilling prophecies
Greenwald 11 (Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York, now contributor to Salon.com, JUL 18, 2011, “The War on Terror, now starring Yemen and Somalia”, )
There is a concerted campaign underway to ensure
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industry: it endlessly spawns its own justification.
Fear of the AQAP in Yemen is a symptom of the War on Terrorism’s obsession with “Islamic terrorism” even though it is thoroughly denied by empirical studies
Jackson 9 (Richard Jackson is Reader in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). He is the founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and the author of Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counterterrorism (2005). “Knowledge, power and politics in the study of politsical terrorism” in Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda, ed. Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth and Jeroen Gunning, Routledge)
As explained earlier, a first order or
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and to pursue alternative intellectual and political projects.
These dominant narratives of terrorism are not just incorrect – they function as a political technology to uphold the brutal exercise of state power
Jackson ‘7 (Richard Jackson, Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, 2007, “Terrorism Studies and the Politics of State Power”,
Together with certain state, military, think
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terrorism campaigns and the current war on terror.
The spread of this knowledge creates a paralyzing cycle of vilification – the end result is permanent warfare in the name of combating the multivalent terrorist threat
Jabri 6 (Vivienne Jabri, Professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, 2006, “War, Security and the Liberal State”, Security Dialogue, Vol. 37, No. 1, p. 52-55)
The practices of warfare taking place in the
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of power that take life as their objective’.
When knowledge becomes a closed cycle, America’s self-image becomes the only truth. The war on terror becomes mere purification: an infinite war on difference itself
Lifton 3 (Robert Lifton, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology, The City University of New York. He was formerly Director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He held the Foundations’ Fund Research Professorship of Psychiatry at Yale University for more than two decades, Super Power Syndrome: America’s Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Rogue_State_US/War_Terrorism_SPS.html)
A superpower dominates and rules. Above all
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has been "the culture of modern evangencalism.
Thus we advocate:
The United States Federal Government should assist the political opposition in the Republic of Yemen with gaining access to political activity.
Contention two is Solvency
Yemen is the crucial site to break down the broader frames of epistemic racism and the war on terror. Engaging with the political opposition through an assistance of solidarity is key
Voting affirmative means there is still a space for HOPE in Yemen.
Blumi 11 (Isa Blumi, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University’s History Deparment and Middle East Institute and author of numerous articles on the modern Middle East’s history that focus especially on late imperial rivalries in the Araian Gulf and Yemen, Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism, Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2011, pg. 151-155)
At the same time, however, those
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the suffering of people it fails to comprehend.
Our moral and ethical imperative is to refuse absolutely the methodology of violence – Only then can Yemen appear on its own, outside the narrative of the War on Terror
Blumi 11 (Isa Blumi, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University’s History Deparment and Middle East Institute and author of numerous articles on the modern Middle East’s history that focus especially on late imperial rivalries in the Araian Gulf and Yemen, Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism, Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies, 2011, pg. 7-8)
The first is the possibility that a combination
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than eradicated with tanks and fighter jets.26
This investigation of the epistemology of terrorism must precede specific policy analysis – only a prior break from uncritical approaches of the past allows us to politicize the debate space
Toros and Gunning 9 (Harmonie Toros is completing her doctoral research at the Department of International Politics of Aberystwyth University, researching the role of negotiations and dialogue in the transformation of conflicts involving terrorist violence. Jeroen Gunning is Lecturer in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence and co-editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism. He is author of Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence (2007). “Exploring a critical theory approach to terrorism studies” in Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda, ed. Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth and Jeroen Gunning, Routledge)
Deepening terrorism research Theory is always from somewhere
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terrorism research, to which we now turn.
