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

Road Trip of the Mind

this is a beyondutopia production

Overview
When you read about global villages, interconnectedness, and globalization, do you feel it applies to you?  Why or why not?  When?

These readings explore controversial points of view that suggest that globalization and interconnectedness erode personal freedoms, and take away choice.  Do you believe this?  What are points that you take issue with? 

Readings

THEORETICAL BASES
Chomsky, Noam.  "Engineering Opinion" in Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. NY: Seven Stories Press, 1997: 25-29.  Noam Chomsky is very controversial -- do you agree with him?  Disagree?  Think he's a publicity hound?

Chomsky, Noam.  "Representation as Reality" in Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. NY: Seven Stories Press, 1997: 30-32.

Howe, LeAnne.  "Choctough" in Shell Shaker. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2001.

Child Slaves May Be Making Your Chocolate.  StopChildLabor.com

Gipsy Culture:  Romani


BACKGROUNDS & ISSUES
The Impact of NAFTA on Maquiladoras

International Forum on Globalization

Globalization, Growth, and Poverty:  Building an Inclusive World Economy.  A World Bank Report.

MUSIC
Manu Chao

FILM & TELEVISION


LITERATURE -- SHORT STORIES & OTHER PROSE
Miller, Henry.  "Letter to Lafayette" in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. New York: New Directions, 1945.

Menendez, Ana.  "Confusing the Saints" in In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd.  NY: Grove Press, 2001.

Davis, Robert Murray.  "The Shortest Way Home"

Flisar, Evald.  "Safari."

POETRY

Maya Angelou (community)
"Alone"

Carl Sandburg
"I am the People, the Mob"

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Timeline of Work
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