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Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World Paperback – June 7, 2019

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  • Washington State Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction
  • Oprah Magazine's "26 Best Travel Books of All Times"
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  • Winner of Newsweek's Future of Travel Awards in Storytelling
  • Wishing Shelf Book Award Finalist
  • Foreward Indies Book Award Finalist
  • Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist
  • Global Shakers "40 Leaders in Sustainable Tourism"
Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners--brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons--travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. While travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it can also be deeply unsettling, confusing, and discomforting. Travelers can find themselves unsure about how to think or speak about the differences in race or culture they find, even though these differences might have fueled their desire to travel in the first place.

In Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World, storyteller Anu Taranath begins at home, unpacking our baggage about who we are, where we come from, and how much we have. She takes us on a journey through engaging personal travel stories and thought-provoking questions, providing us with tools to grapple with our discomfort and navigate differences with accountability and connection. Yes, travel! But be mindful. Be present.
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  • "Enlivened by her travel stories--at once tense, challenging and brightly beautiful-- Taranath's book may become required reading for those who wander, and those who want to."- Mindful Magazine
  • "This is the guide I wished I'd had when first starting to travel the world as a young person. Packed with wisdom and useful tips, Beyond Guilt Trips should be in all campus libraries, youth hostels, and community organizations." - Faith Adiele, author of Meeting Faith and founder of VONA Travel Writing
  • "At a time when it has become radical to ask ourselves what it means to be who we are, where we are, Beyond Guilt Trips holds space for these conversations where there wasn't any before." - Bani Amor, queer travel writer
  • "This book is certainly the most teachable--and instructive-- book on global travel I have read yet." - David Citrin, Global Health and Anthropology, University of Washington
  • "This is a must-read for anyone who wishes to travels the world lightly with deep care and respect for the various communities, people, and countries they visit." - Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, African feminist writer and blogger

About the Author

Dr. Anu brings both passion and expertise to her work as a speaker, facilitator and educator. As faculty at the University of Washington for the past 18-years, she teaches about global issues, race, gender, identity, and equity. A four-time member of Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau, she has also received the Seattle Weekly's "Best of Seattle" recognition, the UW's Distinguished Teaching Award, and multiple US Fulbright Fellowships to work abroad.

Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World was shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award, named one of Oprah Magazine's "26 Best Travel Books of All Times" and Fodor's Travels best "13 Books to Inspire Your Travels." In its one year since publication, the book has been featured in numerous magazines including YES!, AFAR, Mindful Magazine, Bitch, and National Geographic. Dr. Anu has been interviewed by the Peabody award-winning podcast "To the Best of Our Knowledge" and "Travel with Rick Steves" radio program. For more, please visit her at anutaranath.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Between the Lines (June 7, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1771134321
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1771134323
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 7.9 inches
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Dr. Anu is a speaker, author, educator, and racial equity consultant who partners with a range of people to deepen conversations on history, harm and healing. A University of Washington Seattle professor for the past 20+ years, Dr. Anu knows that the most compelling conversations on race, identity, power, and belonging take place when people feel valued and heard.

Her book "Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World" has won several book awards including:

▪ Washington State Book Award in Nonfiction Finalist

▪ Winner of Newsweek’s Future of Travel Award in Storytelling

▪ Fodor’s Travels best “13 Books to Inspire Your Travels”

▪ Oprah Magazine’s “26 Best Travel Books Of All Times”

▪ Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Prize in Travel/Nonfiction Bronze Prize Winner

▪ Wishing Shelf Awards in Nonfiction Finalist

▪ Next Generation Indie Award in Social Justice Finalist

▪ Featured in national media, including The Washington Post, Newsweek, Esquire, Redbook, YES!, AFAR,

Mindful, Bitch, and National Geographic magazines and “Travel with Rick Steves.”

"Beyond Guilt Trips" has been selected for multiple Common Reads programs, book groups, PLCs (professional learning communities) and as a textbook for high school and college courses. It's also being used across the travel industry to invite deeper discussion and reflection! For more on Dr. Anu and her work, please visit www.anutaranath.com.

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This book is amazing. It would be helpful for anyone, whether you are planning to travel to the global south or across town, there are lessons to learn in this book. Great discussion prompts; this book is great for a group book study. This book provides a lot of insight into the intersection between social justice and international travel. Highly recommended!
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Todd Faubion
5.0 out of 5 stars Grateful for this much-needed contribution to the literature on travel and studying away
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2020
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I am so grateful for Anu Taranath's book "Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World." As a global health educator, I work hard every day to encourage reflexive, humble, and thoughtful engagement amongst the students with whom I work. This work is not easy, but to date there have also been limited resources that I can refer students to as they think about how to explore, learn, and grow in an unequal world--one where their very ability to engage is often predicated on taking advantage of inequities in access to money, power, travel, etc., and often problematically mediated by race, gender, sexual identity, and so on.

This book is enormously approachable and reflects Dr. Taranath's almost meditative way of collective learning and growth. It offers vital teaching moments and abundant space for reflection. Perhaps most importantly in our time of heightened (and divisive) attention to difference, this book helps students understand how to productively wade through and embrace difference in a way that challenges dominant norms of charity, service, and so on. I highly recommend this book for students who are considering traveling, and I especially encourage educators or those who lead/endorse studying away from university to ask their students to read this book.
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Aubrie
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the most valuable book I have ever read on the subject of education abroad.
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2020
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I am just so grateful that this book exists. I lead a small education abroad organization and I have been struggling in recent years to evolve our programming to align with my evolving consciousness about the ethics of travel. This book put words to the feelings I could not pin down about what I wanted our organization to stand for, moving forward. I believe that education abroad is the ideal platform to examine identify, racism, colonialism, and power - but we were not (yet) providing forums or tools to do so. "Beyond Guilt Trips" not only provides the context and motivation to "do better" it also gives examples and ideas of how to do it.

It would be an ideal text for faculty members to build into their syllabi for any travel course or faculty-led study abroad program. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to experience meaningful travel.
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GlobeTrotter79
5.0 out of 5 stars Helped me think more critically about my travels AND provided me with some tools to work with!
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2022
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As a well-traveled person, I've always thought of myself as a pretty savvy and culturally sensitive, but I learned so much more through this book. I discovered this book via the RISE Travel Institute's Flagship course on responsible and ethical travel. I'm so glad to have both taken that course (Dr. Anu teaches one of the modules) and read this book. I am planning to write a book on this topic (which was my reason for enrolling in the course) and found the information in "Beyond Guilt Trips" to be incredibly valuable and a good springboard for additional research on the topic. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to travel abroad in a more responsible and intentional way, especially if you have a heart for social justice and/or wish to connect more across cultures.
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Friend of Folk
5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful to planning discussion in study abroad courses
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019
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I so very much I appreciated "Beyond Guilt Trips", which I picked up as I departed to co-lead a study abroad course, and devoured as I made my way to Peru, jotting notes for small exercises and moments for our course participants every few minutes. It was an enormous help!

I have been thinking about related issues for some time, but I lacked clarity on how to help my students work through the issues around power and privilege that we must confront when traveling . Anu Taranath's book provided clear suggestions to guide reflection among students, and her examples and discussion focused my thinking in many new ways.

The book was so very easy to read, so helpfully conducive to thinking through how to support discussion among our students, and most of all, to support their processing of these issues productively- or at least more productively than feeling guilty! I highly recommend this to any instructor of study abroad courses!
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Smitha
4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book!
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2020
As the name suggests, Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World, Dr.Taranath brings forth the complexities of the unequal world which is so evident when we travel from countries with privilege and accomplishes this beautifully without assigning guilt. The book provides tools so we can mindfully think of our own position in this world while being openminded to stories that are different from our own. The real life experiences of the author herself, her students and the people they come in contact with during the journey make it relatable. There are humorous as well as thought provoking and poignant moments. This book does not claim to provide solutions to the big questions, but offers an insight to analyze, be mindful and respectful of the new experiences we encounter while still traveling joyfully. This book is a great read for not just study abroad programs, but any one that thinks about disparity, inequality and privileges in their own community as well as the global world.
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Siena
5.0 out of 5 stars Add this to your packing list!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2020
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If you're a frequent traveler, interested in social justice, or even just a fan of reading -- this is the book for you! I had the amazing opportunity to travel with Dr. Anu to Ghana this last summer as a part of a University of Washington Study Abroad program and I couldn't be more thankful for the reflection and discussions she facilitated. This book has completely changed my outlook on travel, privilege, and the importance of conversation around difficult topics. Truly a necessary read for any Global North traveler seeking to find "adventure," "exoticness," and "difference" through going abroad. I have used this book to facilitate discussion in my university classes, other study abroad programs I have gone on, and with family/friends who are big into travel. I highly recommend buying "Beyond Guilt Trips" -- you will not regret it. Make sure to have a pen ready to underline and write down your thoughts :)
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