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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
After 2 years of social justice dialog and education during my masters program at Marquette I began to question my past trips and actions. This book is a great tool for perspective taking and understanding the experiences we hold, while better equipping individuals for the future of a global world. We should evolve away from the "us" versus "them" model, trying to understand the similarities and differences within and between all humans. I enjoyed the personal anecdotes given throughout the book as it offered a more realistic understanding and not only theory or academic knowledge.
If you have ever traveled before or plan to travel you need to read this book. Whether it be traveling to another country or just to a friend's house for lunch Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World can help provide guidance for your journey. In Beyond Guilt Trips, Dr. Anu Taranath looks at traveling through a lens that I have never seen before in a travel guide. Dr.Taranath looks at traveling with a focus on the fact that the traveler is visiting a place that is someone else's home. Every space on earth is a home to someone. Sometimes it is a person's home and sometimes it is an animal’s; but there is always someone living in the spaces that we visit. However, this concept is one that not many people think about right away when they begin planning their trip. At first people are thinking about what landmarks they are going to visit, places to stay, and foods they might eat. Travelers aren't thinking about how their visit is going to affect the people who live in the place they are visiting. Beyond Guilt Trips helps to get travelers thinking about what their effect on other people is when they travel.
One reason Beyond Guilt Trips is a great book is because it is talking about content that no other travel books are talking about. As it was mentioned at the beginning of this review Beyond Guilt Trips discusses how when someone travels they aren't just visiting another place, they are visiting another person's home. When someone travels to someone's house and is a house guest they typically act a little differently then when they travel to a new place and aren't visiting any specific person. However it is important that people do realize how their actions when traveling might affect those who live in the place that the travelers are visiting. In addition to this realization, Beyond Guilt Trips helps travelers acknowledge how their travels might affect themselves personally. Whether you realize it or not, whenever you travel somewhere you change. You learn new things about yourself, and about the world around you. Sometimes these changes and new realizations can be hard to work through. Beyond Guilt Trip provides some guidance for how to work through these challenging realizations.
As someone who wants to travel I am very relieved to have Beyond Guilt Trips with Dr. Anu Taranath’s guidance in it in my back pocket. These tips and guidance can be applied to other experiences beyond travel as well. When going to someone’s house for dinner or even having a guest at your own the tips taught through Beyond Guilt Trips can help as you and people you meet go through these realizations. It is always important to be aware of those around you as well as being aware of yourself and Beyond Guilt Trips helps to provide guidance for these awarenesses and the changes that come with them when traveling.
One reason Beyond Guilt Trips is a great book is because it is talking about content that no other travel books are talking about. As it was mentioned at the beginning of this review Beyond Guilt Trips discusses how when someone travels they aren't just visiting another place, they are visiting another person's home. When someone travels to someone's house and is a house guest they typically act a little differently then when they travel to a new place and aren't visiting any specific person. However it is important that people do realize how their actions when traveling might affect those who live in the place that the travelers are visiting. In addition to this realization, Beyond Guilt Trips helps travelers acknowledge how their travels might affect themselves personally. Whether you realize it or not, whenever you travel somewhere you change. You learn new things about yourself, and about the world around you. Sometimes these changes and new realizations can be hard to work through. Beyond Guilt Trip provides some guidance for how to work through these challenging realizations.
As someone who wants to travel I am very relieved to have Beyond Guilt Trips with Dr. Anu Taranath’s guidance in it in my back pocket. These tips and guidance can be applied to other experiences beyond travel as well. When going to someone’s house for dinner or even having a guest at your own the tips taught through Beyond Guilt Trips can help as you and people you meet go through these realizations. It is always important to be aware of those around you as well as being aware of yourself and Beyond Guilt Trips helps to provide guidance for these awarenesses and the changes that come with them when traveling.
Interesting book about how to be more thoughtful in travel -- recognizing race and inequity as we travel, the importance of being aware of the issues and acknowledging their impact. That there are differences in our country, not just overseas. It's written specifically for college-age students and their overseas advisors for short-term trips (no mention of Peace Corps, although I extrapolated a lot, and appreciated all the training and processing that were part of our training/support.)
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The topic Dr. Taranath writes about is one that I am incredibly invested in and it was so refreshing to read an entire book by someone who cares so deeply about this topic. I don’t think in this world we talk about mindful travel enough, nor is it normalized to think more deeply about travel as a social phenomenon. Who gets to do it? What do we learn from it? Who benefits? What are the power dynamics involved?
Dr. Taranath manages to write a book that summarizes these topics all very well in an easy to read and easy to understand way. I did study sociology in college so many of these concepts were not new, since I spent my entire undergrad time talking, thinking, writing about identity and social issues. But I did find this book as a good reminder and refresher of how all the topics learned around race, gender, class etc connects to travel.
Dr. Taranath provides a lot of real life anecdotes and examples which is helpful and may be relatable for readers. The book is definitely targeted to those who have the privilege to travel the world, and reminds us to be mindful of our own identities/backgrounds and how to encounter difference in other parts of the world in a way that truly opens our minds up rather than reinforcing the same negative stereotypes and norms we may have grown up to believe.
Highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to connect social discourse topics with travel. I was also a fan of Dr. Taranath using more creative methods to help her students and readers think more expansively about travel and make it personal for folks too. Because at the end of the day, travel is a very personal experience and can be life changing in many ways. To keep thinking critically throughout can make a lot of difference and I believe, can create better “global citizens”.
Dr. Taranath manages to write a book that summarizes these topics all very well in an easy to read and easy to understand way. I did study sociology in college so many of these concepts were not new, since I spent my entire undergrad time talking, thinking, writing about identity and social issues. But I did find this book as a good reminder and refresher of how all the topics learned around race, gender, class etc connects to travel.
Dr. Taranath provides a lot of real life anecdotes and examples which is helpful and may be relatable for readers. The book is definitely targeted to those who have the privilege to travel the world, and reminds us to be mindful of our own identities/backgrounds and how to encounter difference in other parts of the world in a way that truly opens our minds up rather than reinforcing the same negative stereotypes and norms we may have grown up to believe.
Highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to connect social discourse topics with travel. I was also a fan of Dr. Taranath using more creative methods to help her students and readers think more expansively about travel and make it personal for folks too. Because at the end of the day, travel is a very personal experience and can be life changing in many ways. To keep thinking critically throughout can make a lot of difference and I believe, can create better “global citizens”.
I was trying to finish reading this book before an online author event but didn't quite make it. The conversation with the author was interesting, but it seemed like she really wanted to facilitate a workshop with the participants rather than offer her opinion or position. It is clear from reading her book and watching her speak that she is most comfortable facilitating conversations and helping travelers process their own reactions. She is the ultimate diplomat with plenty of experience under her belt.
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