Social science is a biased form of knowledge production that rewrites the narrative of neocolonialism to render it benevolent
Shapiro 4 (“Methods and nations: cultural governance and the Indigenous Subject”, Chapter 1: Social Science, “comparative politics”, and Inequalities. Page5-6.
Like the sub discipline of comparative….the head of the thinkers.
Social and political science renders the state politically incontestable to naturalize institutionalized violence –
Shapiro 4 (Same cite, pages 6-7)
To elaborate on the implications of….of their political imaginaries.
Alt text: reject the epistemological framing of the 1ac
Geography is inextricably linked to the architecture of enmity-Shapiro 97
(Prof of Poli Scie at University of Hawaii, “Violent Cartographies: Mapping Cultures of War, Preface pg. xi)
In this investigation… geographic causes of violence.
Imaginative geographies make wars possible, wars are a productive of representative architectures of enmity that are constructed in our minds- Gregory 4
(Derek, “The colonial present: Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq, page 19-20)
In the chapters that follow…..themselves through representation.”
The 1ac adopts normative constructions of Yemen/US that exists within the contemporary geographic imaginary to Prioritize ethicopolitical discourses that exclude differences-
Michel Foucault put the matter….recognized political subjectivity.
Every state action that ignores the deeper systematic violence of the international imaginary furthers the reproduction of violent confrontations- Shapiro 1996
(“Challenging Boundaries: Global Flows, Territorial Identities”, pg xvi)
The political consolidations represented…..the international imaginary.
Ontologies that invoke the U.s. as territorial entity reproduces perpetual patterns of violence- grovogui 98
(Siba N’Zatiola, “The Boundaries of Moral Solicitation: Theyory and Event, 2.21, Project muse),
For Shapiro, the practices and discources….the use of deadly force.”
Top down democratization is a Narcotic used to placate the masses-trades off with self-empowerment and grass-roots democratic action- Mengisteab and Daddieh 99
(“State building and Democratization in Africa: Faith, Hope and Realities”, pg 47-50)
“Popular democracy?”….not a defining requirement.
Democracy assistance constructs democracy as fragile and alien in an Islamic context to feminize and devalue anything traditionally defined in opposition to the west- Elliot 09
(Cathy, “The day democracy died: the depoliticizing effects of democratic development”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 34)
Writing on 18 of September…..what it might mean to be a developed country.
Framing democracy within the epistemology of the nation-state reifies a spatial imaginary that naturalizes the construction of the barbarian other- Said 3
(“Orientalism”, Chapter 2, page 54)
Despite the distraction of….in the sixteenth century or in Tahiti.
Democracy assistance subjugates the people it attempts to liberate by forcing them to conform to western ideas of democracy- Conway and Singh 11
(“Radical democracy in Global perspectives: notes from the pluriverse”, Third world Quarterly, vol 32, Iss 4)
One face of this….the third and fourth worlds.
Democracy assistance is the Benign face of imperialism- Said 3
So from the very same directorate of paid professional…..by the latest mission civilizatrice.
Orientalism necessitates war and genocide against the supposedly irrational Oriental other. Accepting this ideology sparks a new way of crusades, the only way to deal with a completely excluded other is to seek its elimination. Once we have designated a group of people is inherently different- the road to their genocide is short indeed- Batur 7
(Hand book of the Sociology of racial and ethnic relations, “Heart of Violence: Global racism, war and genocide”)
Albert Memmi argued that….21st century opened up with genocide, in Darfur
