scholarly journals Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-149
Author(s):  
Joseph Bristley ◽  
Elizabeth Turk
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Shock Therapy ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Future ◽  
Duke University

Anya Bernstein, The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 296, 2019.Tomas Matza, Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-being in Postsocialist Russia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 305, 2018.

Prospection, well-being, and mental health

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Life Trajectory

The ability to think about the future is essential for functioning, and is also central to individual well-being and mental health. This book reviews the growing evidence for the link between prospection and well-being. A variety of aspects of prospection are discussed, including prediction and anticipation for future events, judging how we will feel when events do happen to us, and how we feel in the here-and-now when contemplating what will happen in the future. Each of these aspects of prospection is connected to experiences of well-being and mental health in different ways. Questions of bias and accuracy in prediction are also addressed in the context of discussing optimism and pessimism. Qualities of goals for the future that are strongly implicated in aspects of well-being and mental health are reviewed, along with the role that difficulties in planning how to reach goals play in states of low well-being. The book also attempts to reconcile the seeming contradiction between being mindful in the present and thinking about the future. Ways of trying to change problematic prospection are also reviewed in light of their ability to improve well-being and reduce psychological distress. It is not possible to think about the future without remembering the past, and the involvement of memory in prospection is discussed, especially in relation to memory difficulties producing difficulties in prospection. The book concludes by arguing that our well-being and mental health are intimately bound up with our subjective sense of a future life trajectory.

scholarly journals Books

Museum Worlds ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-176
Author(s):  
Sven Grabow ◽  
Dominique Poulot ◽  
Emma Waterton ◽  
Sheila K. Hoffman ◽  
Masaaki Morishita
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Liberal Government ◽  
Museum Practice

Book Review EssaysSustaining the Past into the Future: Some Reflections on Mechanisms to Keep Heritage Meaningful and SustainableTheory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability: Between Past and Future. Elizabeth Auclair and Graham Fairclough, eds. London: Routledge, 2015.Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage, Mia Ridge, ed. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays. Tony Bennett. London: Routledge, 2018.Book ReviewsCollecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government. Tony Bennett, Fiona Cameron, Nélia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, Ira Jacknis, and Conal McCarthy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.The Museum of the Senses. Constance Classen. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.New Museum Practice in Asia. John Reeve and Caroline Lang, eds. London: Lund Humphries, 2018.

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