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Traditional knowledge production under the resolution poses questions concerning oil removal in Venezuela, questions about an industry that requires access and transparency of the physical land, but also the politics of the region, only to accelerate the violence pitted on the civilians of Venezuela and other nations. Venezuela and other oil rich countries are left with an uphill battle against “better institutionally accepted parties” or to assimilate to the violent legal discourse of the oil industry.
Robert Dufresne 04 – (Robert Dufresne Winter / Spring, 2004, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, SYMPOSIUM: OIL AND THE INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE GEOPOLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PETROLEUM CORPORATIONS: THE OPACITY OF OIL: OIL CORPORATIONS, INTERNAL VIOLENCE, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, J.S.D. Candidate and Hauswer Research Scholar, New York University School of Law; LL.M., New York University School of Law; B.C.L. and LL.B., McGill University. Many thanks to Professors Benedict Kingsbury, Marti Koskenniemi, and Ki Gab Park for their insights on ideas contained in this Article. PM)
The discourse of oil corporations regarding the violence-fueling character of their activities is premised on…. TNCs thus claim to be embedded enough into the local dynamics to derive some credit from positive interventions in the government/people confrontations but to remain aloof enough to bear no responsibility for the excesses engendered by such confrontations.
The current understanding of economic engagement allows western modernity to project methods only applicable to western society on Mesoamerica nations only to code their existence based on their resistance. Transparency allows the colonizer to place the other as an object of knowledge, but there is no exploitation if you are hidden. Opacity is a right to not be understood, to escape the master’s normative control and is active resistance to the colonial gaze. Only an understanding that allows for opacity is able to avoid the control
Celia M. Britton 99 Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory Strategies of Lanuage and Resistance pp. 21-25
Relation as a whole is also intimately connected to another of Glissant's main theoretical concepts: "opacity."…, and for me the need to seek out opacity"
Thus Peymaan and I affirm the resolution as a site for opaque engagement.
Historically the strategies of engagement with Mesoamerica, and specifically Venezuela, have been unchanged economic and military domination even with the façade of a “equitable” policy with the intentions of stifling global solidarity. The failure for this solidarity to be opaque allowed for military coups and economic domination by the US to destroy these movements.
Gloria La Riva 12 U.S. imperialism tries to rebound in Latin America Democrats working hard to reverse the region’s left-wing turn published in the 'Class Struggle Rages in Latin America' Edition of Liberation
What is the U.S. government’s basic strategy towards Latin America? …and stands in solidarity with the people’s resistance and unfolding revolutions of the new Latin America.
In Venezuela pragmatic solutions resisting the demand for transparency in communities exist, but are fragmented by the coding resulting from of current understanding of what qualifies economic engagement.. Hip-Hop opens up a space of political opposition, a space of autonomy that cannot be controlled. In Venezuela performers can interact with the political and teach each other, but have their own identity.
Jenell Navarro 11 Phd Ethnic Studies Battling Imperialism: Revolutionary Hip Hop in the Americas California Polytechnic State University, http://udini.proquest.com/view/battling-imperialism-revolutionary-pqid:2439493011
Since the early development of hip hop culture in New York in the 1970’s, … In addition, Native feminisms are multiple in v arious approaches to transforming sovereignties in order to create a liberatory present and future across the globe.
Hip hop pedagogy is a site of opacity and a chance to create a new form of conceptualizing identity and accepting different cultural linguistic practices necessary to reshape how we understand engagement with Venezuela – an understanding that engages individuals as knowledge producers.
Ibrahim- Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa- 2k8- Awad; Takin Hip Hop to a Whole Nother Level- Global Linguistic Flows- p. 241- 246
Hiphopness—the dynamic and constant sense of being alive in a hip hop, … Hip Hop’s in da house!
Every utterance of policy reifies a reliance on normative discourse. Complacency is justified in the name of hopeless reactions against a grand power structure. Policy only prescribes quick fixes that paper over the violence that is enacted on the people of Venezuela justifying continuing economic control. American Civil society is not beautiful or free, it is the home of the those who were not brave enough to run away from the enticement of liberal ethics. I can no longer remain trapped in the minutia of academia. It is time we break free as a community and BECOME the undercommons.
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten 13the undercommons: fugitive planning and black study Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterlhttp://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf
Policy is the form that opportunism takes in this environment, as the embrace of the radically extra-economic, political character of command today. …Whether they lack consciousness or politics, utopianism or common sense, hope has arrived.