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Suarez 12 (Julia Suarez-Krabbe. Assistant professor at Roskilde University, The
Department of Culture and Identity Interkulturelle studier Universitetsvej 1, 3.1.5 DK-4000,
Roskilde Denmark Epistemic Coyotismo and Transnational Collaboration: Decolonizing the
Danish University Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self- Knowledge Volume
10 Issue 1 Decolonizing the University: Practicing Pluriversity 1-1-2012 Article 5)
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Strategies for curtailing/modifying surveillance fail to question the
state itself, this allows the state to continue violent surveillance
techniques that render certain populations manageable and
expendable
Smith 15 (Andrea Smith NOT-SEEING: State Surveillance, Settler Colonialism,
and Gender Violence, Dubrofsky, Rachel E. Feminist Surveillance Studies. N.p.:
Duke UP, 2015. Pgs 21-38. KLB)
The focus of surveillance studies has generally been on the modern, bureaucratic state. And yet, as David
Stannard's (1992) account of the sexual surveillance of indigenous peoples within the Spanish mission system in
the Americas demonstrates, the history of patriarchal and colonialist surveillance in this continent is much longer.
administration has added to the fears expressed by human rights groups. The past
two decades have seen an accelerated expansion of overt surveillance
practices in warfare. The use of drones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other
parts of the Middle East such as Yemen is now acknowledged as a form of
targeted assassination through remote control. With the push of a button,
soldiers sitting behind desks thousands of miles away from the conflict zone can
wreak havoc on unsuspecting communities through so-called collateral damage. An
old hand in the business of surveillance, Israel uses its military power to market its military hardware, drones in
particular, as field-tested technology. Palestinians in the occupied territories constitute a laboratory for drone
advanced countries, the originators of colonialism. Whether resistance to surveillance will be manifest in the third
world remains to be seen.
A2: Zuriek 13- We are not a call to action in the name of national
security, We reduce surveillance.
The right to privacy is not afforded to all people- the aff does not
prevent the surveillance of people of color but additionally ensures that
violence in the private sphere continues and absolves the government
of responsibility for private sphere violence
Smith 15 (Andrea Smith NOT-SEEING: State Surveillance, Settler Colonialism,
and Gender Violence, Dubrofsky, Rachel E. Feminist Surveillance Studies. N.p.:
Duke UP, 2015. Pgs 21-38. KLB)
One of the reasons for the antiviolence movement's investment in the state derives from its concerns with the
incident in which a domestic worker complained to her social-justice organization that she was being abused by her
white employer.5 When Bhattacharjee on behalf of the organization contacted the police to report the incident, she
was told that "if her organization tried to intervene by rescuing this person, that would be trespassing: In this case,
the privacy of these wealthy employers' home was held to be inviolate, while the plight of an immigrant worker
being held in a condition of involuntary servitude was not serious enough to merit police action ....
The
supposed privacy and sanctity of the home is a relative concept, whose application
is heavily conditioned by racial and economic status " (Bhattacharjee 2000, 29). As Patricia
Allard notes, women of color who receive public assistance are not generally
deemed worthy of privacy- they are subjected to the constant surveillance
of the state. Of course, all women seeking public services can be
surveilled, but welfare is generally racialized in the public imaginary
through the figure of the "welfare queen." Andrea Ritchie (2006), Anannya Bhattacharjee
(2001), and other scholars document how women of color, particularly those who are
non-gender conforming, who seek police intervention in cases of domestic violence
often find themselves subject to sexual assault, murder, and other forms of policeinflicted brutality.
of 1924, all American Indians were granted nonexclusive U.S. citizenship, whether or not they wanted it, and
status of indigenous individuals in liberal settler states poses a fundamental dilemma: how can nation-states that
commit to equality among the citizenry take account of the differential political status of indigenous peoples as
citizens both of indigenous polities (e.g., the Seminole Tribe of Florida) and of settler states (e.g., the United
States)? Scholars have examined this dilemma with regard to political rights and legal claims (Kymlicka 1995;
Maaka and Fleras 2005; Paine 1999; Peterson and Sanders 1998; Povinelli 2002), and Thomas Biolsi (2005), among
the economic
dimensions of citizenshipor what T. H. Marshall (1992) famously named social citizenship
for indigenous people. Those who have done so usually note that indigenous citizenship in
settler states often is organized by need. Jeremy Beckett (1988) and Robert Paine (1977, 1984),
among others, have developed the concept of welfare colonialism to characterize
the ways in which aboriginal citizens are addressed as needing service provision
and thereby occupy subordinate positions in settler states.18 Taken together, American Indians
others, has analyzed the hybrid political space of dual citizenship. Fewer have explored
remain the poorest ethnicracial group in the United States, despite recent gains from gaming profits (Taylor and
Kalt 2005), and the bureaucratic production, assessment, and meeting of need have been occasions for many
double bind was the federal determination of Indian eligibility for U.S. citizenship based on economic competence
(often but not only coded by categories like mixed blood) during the implementation of the General Allotment Act
(Dawes Act) of 1887. Tellingly, the Dawes Act stipulated that the acceptance of U.S. citizenship, with allegiance
sometimes ritually sworn on a plow handle, required severing political allegiance to tribal governments. Teddy
Roosevelt famously promoted allotment as a mighty pulverizing engine, to break up the tribal mass (Wilkinson
2005:43). Today, Seminoles live at civic boundaries when they decide whether or not to vote in tribal and extratribal
elections, when they cheer on Florida college football teams, and when they honor U.S. military veterans.20 Less
obviously, they also do so when they decide whether or not to hang Seminole Indian license plates on their
vehicles and risk them being keyed in parking lots, when Seminole women decide whether to take husbands
surnames, when non-Seminoles ask how they can sign up for tribal membership on learning of gaming-generated
benefits, when Seminole leaders serve on regional tourism boards and other governing bodies, and when all
Seminoles answer for the millionth time whether they pay taxes (yes) or just how much they receive in gamingbased per capita payments from the tribal government (the number is rarely disclosed).21 During the termination
States, to end their status as wards of the United States, and to grant them all of the rights and prerogatives
pertaining to American citizenship ([H. Con. Res. 108] 67 Stat. B122).22 Becoming full citizens (recall that
American Indians already were citizens under the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924) entailed no longer being wards,a
term that referred to the Marshall U.S. Supreme Court opinions of the 1830s categorizing Indian tribes as domestic
dependent nations, in a state of pupilage wherein their relation to the U.S. resembles that of a ward to his
targeted for relocation to join the urban industrial labor force. There was some ambiguity about Seminole
individualization when lawmakers suggested that Seminoles could create a posttermination private corporation to
hold their lands. Officials insisted, however, that Seminoles henceforth would be treated as individual citizens, not a
governmental entity, regardless of whether they formed a corporation, and they understood that collective assets
would be sold off (U.S. Congress 1954:1058).23 Questions and testimony on both sides were shot through with
support. A local Congressman, who supported Seminole resistance to termination, took the position that full U.S.
citizenship would have to be put on hold: I know that the Seminoles themselves do not want the responsibilities of
citizenship thrust upon them at this time (U.S. Congress 1954:1132). He worried that Seminoles were not ready to
manage property because of ignorance of ownership of real estate and taxes, because they were not equipped to
To be a fully progressed
U.S. citizen, agreed many termination advocates and opponents alike, required
entering the white economy. Indigenous economic success was a mode and sign
of whitening. One corollary was that citizenship in an indigenous polity was to be surpassed; another was that
take jobs in the white economy, and because they were not literate or educated.
Impacts
Churchill 96
THE ALTERNATIVE IS NOT JUST ABOUT A SURVIVAL OF
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ABOUT A WHOLE IT IS ABOUT THE
SURVIVAL ABOUT ALL HUMANS AND OUR PLANET
Churchill 96
[Ward, Codirector of the Colorado Chapter of the American Indian Movement. Prof.
of Ethnic Studies and American Indian Studies @ U. of Colorado, Boulder BA and MA
in Communications from Sangamon State, On a Native Son, Pg 31.//wyo-hdm]
Plainly,
all
official
polemics
to
the
contrary
notwithstanding,
the
agony
induced
by
500
years
of
For the
indigenous people of the continent it has become obvious that there are no real
alternatives but either to renew their commitment to struggle for survival or to
finally pass into the realm of extinction which has been relentlessly projected for
them since the predator's arrival on their shores . For everyone else, the situation is rapidly
becomingor in some cases has already becomemuch the same. The time has arrived when a
choice must be made: non-Indians, in both the New World and the Old, must decide whether
they wish to be a willing part of the final gnawing on the bones of their native
victims, or whether they are at last prepared to join hands with Native North
America, ending the wanton consumption of indigenous lands and lives which has
marked the nature of our relationship to date . The sort of alliance at issue no longer represents, as
it did in the past, an exercise in altruism for non-Indians. Antiimperialism, opposition to racism,
colonialism, and genocide, while worthy enough stances in and of themselves, are
no longer the fundamental issues at hand. Ultimately, the same system of predatory
goals and values which has so busily and mercilessly consumed the people of the
land these past five centuries has increasingly set about consuming the land itself.
European/Euroamerican predation in North America is anything but abated at this juncture.
Not only indigenous peoples, but also the land to which they are irrevocably linked, is now dying. When the land
long last, we have arrived at the point where there is a tangible, even overriding, confluence of interests between
had perfected ways of organizing themselves into psychologically fulfilling wholes, experiencing very high
standards of material life, and still maintaining environmental harmonyshine like a beacon in the night. The
The liberation of
significant sectors of Native America stands to allow this knowledge to once again
be actualized in the "real world," not to recreate indigenous societies as they once
were, but to recreate themselves as they can be in the future. Therein lies the
information required to recreate this reality is still in place in many indigenous cultures.
modelthe laboratory, if you willfrom which a genuinely liberatory and sustainable alternative can be cast for
all humanity. In a very real sense, then, the fate of Native North America signifies the fate of the planet. The crux of
the matter rests, not merely in resistance to the predatory nature of the present Eurocentric status quo, but in
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