Critical dementia studies : : an introduction / / edited by Richard Ward, Linn J. Sandberg.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ward, Richard,; Sandberg, Linn J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Taylor & Francis,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Dementia in critical dialogue
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages) :; illustrations.

"This book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a provocative and thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collectively the contributions gathered together in this text make a powerful case for a m...

Table of Contents

• Introduction : why critical dementia studies and why now? / Linn J. Sandberg and Richard Ward
• I want to be the orchestrator of my entire fabulous life / Dáithí Clayton
• Small quantities at a time : on music, poetry and social media / Ronald Amanze
• Who knew a pothole could bring it all back? / Patrick Ettenes
• Nobody is allowed to offend us not by language, nor by attitude / Helga Rohra
• Recognizing Birkby : living and caring with dementia / Wendy Hulko, Marsha Griffith and Birkby Griffith
• Lost in time like tears in rain : critical perspectives on personhood and dementia / Stephen Katz and Annette Leibing
• Multi-species dementia studies : how moving beyond human exceptionalism can advance dementia's more critical turn / Nick Jenkins
• Reframing 'ethnicity' in dementia research : reflections on current whiteness of research and the need for an anti-racist approach / Maria Zubair
• Frames of dementia, grieving otherwise in the father, relic and supernova : representing dementia in recent film / Sadie Wearing
• Precarity and dementia / Amanda Grenier and Chris Phillipson
• An emerging necropolitics of the dementias / Hamish Robertson and Joanne Travaglia
• Segregation and incarceration of people living with dementia in care homes : critical disability and human rights approaches / Linda Steele, Lyn Phillipson, Kate Swaffer and Richard Fleming
• The carnival is not over : cultural resistance in dementia care environments / Andrea Capstick and John Chatwin
• Convergences, collaborations, and co-conspirators : the radical potentiality of critical disability studies and critical dementia studies / Hailee M. Yoshizaki-Gibbons
• Thinking dementia differently : dialogues between feminist scholarship and dementia studies / Linn J Sandberg
• Revolutionising dementia policy and practice : guidance from the memory girl, an accomplice / Wendy Hulko
• Taking a queer turn : the significance of queer theory for critical dementia studies / Andrew King
• Neurodiversity and dementia : pitfalls, possibilities and some personal notes / Linda Örulv
• Thinking back and looking ahead : co-ordinates for critical methodologies in dementia studies / Richard Ward and Linn J. Sandberg.