Frameworks for successful analysis and
management of the structures of understanding.

Road Trip of the Mind

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Unit 1  Personal Frames: The structures of individual knowledge and perception
Unit 2  Cultural Frames: Moving outside one's own frame
Unit 3   When Worlds Collide: The clash of frames
Unit 4  Frameworks of Debate:  Moving beyond simply taking sides
Unit 5  When Frames Collapse: Reconfiguring knowledge in times of upheaval and rapid change
Unit 6  The Big Frame: Global villages and beyond
Unit 7  Who's Watching the Frame?: Discussions on the Limits of Self-Expression
Unit 8  Frameworks for Community Building
Unit 9  Colonialist Frames:  The Myths and Realities of "Tribalism"
Unit 10  Hammering Out Your Own Frame:  Reconfiguring Perception for Times of Change

About the Author

Road Trip of the Mind
Guidebook for the Intrepid Traveler
Designed and developed
by Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.
© 2002

Overview
Animal activists and eco-activists have become surprisingly aggressive.  Many have moved beyond debate and are taking action.

What makes individuals think they have the right to break laws, destroy private or public property, and to potentially bring harm to individuals? 

Sometimes there are deliberate manipulations of myth and story (David and Goliath, etc.).  Sometimes, there is an overwhelming sense of frustration, futility, and impotence, leading to suicidal despair. At other moments, the individuals seem to crave recognition by martyrdom.

These are controversial issues.  What do you think?

Readings

BACKGROUNDS & ISSUES
Environmentalism, Eco-Terrorism and Endangered Species by Glenn Woiceshyn  Capitalism Magazine, January 1999

Earth Liberation Front

Testimony of FCUSA Board Member Harvey Beck on H.B. 1938 to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Corrections, February 23, 2001


MUSIC
Rage Against the Machine

FILM & TELEVISION
Ulee's Gold
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (dir. Hector Babenco, 1991)
The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story (dir. John Frankenheimer, 1994)


LITERATURE -- SHORT STORIES & OTHER PROSE

Jewett, Sarah Orne
from "The Country of the Pointed Firs" (1910)
"The Backward View"

Thomas Hobbes
from "Leviathan"  (1660)

POETRY

Allen Ginsburg
"Supermarket in  California"  (where are you Walt  Whitman?)

Writing and Activity Guide

Persuasion in Action:  Frameworks of Debate