Critical Dementia Studies : An Introduction (Paperback)

Introduction: Why critical dementia studies and why now?

Part I: Reclaiming and recasting　

1. I want to be the orchestrator of my entire fabulous life

2. Small quantities at a time: On music, poetry and social media

3. Who knew a pothole could bring it all back?

4. Nobody is allowed to offend us ? not by language, nor by attitude

5. Recognizing Birkby: Living and caring with dementia

Part II: Re/framing　

6. ‘Lost in time like tears in rain’: Critical Perspectives on Personhood and Dementia　

7. Multi-Species Dementia Studies: How moving beyond human exceptionalism can advance dementia's more critical turn　

8. Reframing 'ethnicity'?in dementia research: Reflections on current whiteness of research and the need for an anti-racist approach　

9. Frames of Dementia, grieving otherwise in The Father, Relic and Supernova:　Representing dementia in recent film　

Part III: Care and control　

10. Precarity and Dementia　

11. An Emerging Necropolitics of the Dementias　

12. Segregation and Incarceration of People Living with Dementia in Care Homes: Critical Disability and Human Rights Approaches　

13. The carnival is not over: cultural resistance in dementia care environments　

Part IV: Forging alliances　　

14. Convergences, Collaborations, and Co-conspirators: The Radical Potentiality of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Dementia Studies　

15. Thinking dementia differently: Dialogues between feminist scholarship and dementia studies　

16. Revolutionising dementia policy and practice: Guidance from ‘the memory girl’, an accomplice　

17. Taking a Queer Turn ? the significance of Queer Theory for Critical Dementia Studies　　　

18. Neurodiversity and dementia: Pitfalls, possibilities and some personal notes　

19. Thinking back and looking ahead: Co-ordinates for critical methodologies in dementia studies