Globalization Discussion Group Concept

The outline below is a possible class on globalization. It's my own mind-map. What is yours? Should we share these ideas in person?

Globalization and Industrial Labor

- offshoring factories

- the rust belt

- management in America, labor elsewhere

* analysis of personal production/consumption



Globalization and High Tech Labor

- intellectual property and outsourcing

- teaching and intellectual property

- art and intellectual property

- the post-industrial

* analysis of personal production/consumption

Globalization and Indigenous Existence

- what is colonization

- zapatismo as a response

- the green revolution, biotech, and communal intellectual property

* discussion of the personal indigenous "roots" as well as local indigenous reality, and "how did i get here".

More Ideas

- the multitude

- flows of people, capital, information; nodes

- identity politics, intercultural communication, conflict resolution

- getting beyond postmodern ennui, to action