Tournament: TOC 3099 | Round: 2 | Opponent: The United States Federal Government | Judge: Ashtar
The affirmative’s economic engagement with Latin America is just one more manifestation of 500 years of coloniality—the promise of prosperity, democracy, and security is a toxic fantasy that obscures the trail of dead reaching back through time.
Mignolo 2005, (Walter, Duke University, "THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA", 2005, 6/28/13|Ashwin)
The logic of coloniality can be understood as working through four wide domains of human
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the very idea of both "America" and "Latin" America.
Economic development perpetuates the commodification of the environment and North-South divide making violence inevitable
Howard, Hume, and Oslender 07 (*David Howard – PhD in Latin America Studies from the University of Oxford; he is a lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford, Mo Hume – PhD in Latin American studies from the University of Liverpool; she is a professor of Development and Latin American Politics (Department of Politics) at the University of Glasgow, and *Ulrich Oslender – PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Glasgow; former research fellow at the University of Glasgow in the Department of Geography, November 2007, "Violence, fear, and development in Latin America: a critical overview", http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/25548278.pdf) MD
Others, however, have criticised ’Mrs Brundtland’s disenchanted cosmos’ and the fact that sustainable
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and for the affirmation of truly emancipatory political projects of self-affirmation.
Taylor 12 - Lecturer in Latin American Studies BA University of London, Queen Mary MPhil University of Glasgow PhD University of Manchester, (Lucy, "Decolonizing International Relations: Perspectives from Latin America," International Studies Review, Volume 14, Issue 3, 11 SEP 2012, 14, 386–400, Wiley Online Library)A-Berg
The aim of this paper is to think differently about International Relations (IR)
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, locating its critique at the heartland of international relationships and International Relations.