{"product_id":"critical-dementia-studies-9781032118802","title":"Critical Dementia Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collectively the contributions gathered together in this text make a powerful case for a more politically engaged and critical treatment of dementia and the systems and structures that currently govern and frame it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is inter-disciplinary and draws together leading dementia scholars alongside dementia activists from around the world. It frames dementia as first and foremost a political category. The book advances both theoretical and methodological thinking in the field as well as sharing learning from empirical research. Outlining the limits to existing efforts to frame and theorise the condition, it proposes a new critical movement for the field of dementia studies and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will be of direct interest to researchers and scholars in the field of dementia studies an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Why \u003ci\u003ecritical\u003c\/i\u003e dementia studies and why now? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Reclaiming and recasting \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. I want to be the orchestrator of my entire fabulous life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Small quantities at a time: On music, poetry and social media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Who knew a pothole could bring it all back?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Nobody is allowed to offend us – not by language, nor by attitude\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Recognizing Birkby: Living and caring with dementia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Re\/framing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. ‘Lost in time like tears in rain’: Critical Perspectives on Personhood and Dementia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Multi-Species Dementia Studies: How moving beyond human exceptionalism can advance dementia's more critical turn \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Reframing 'ethnicity' in dementia research: Reflections on current whiteness of research and the need for an anti-racist approach \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Frames of Dementia, grieving otherwise in \u003ci\u003eThe Father\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRelic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSupernova\u003c\/i\u003e: Representing dementia in recent film \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Care and control \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Precarity and Dementia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. An Emerging Necropolitics of the Dementias \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Segregation and Incarceration of People Living with Dementia in Care Homes: Critical Disability and Human Rights Approaches \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. The carnival is not over: cultural resistance in dementia care environments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Forging alliances \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Convergences, Collaborations, and Co-conspirators: The Radical Potentiality of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Dementia Studies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. Thinking dementia differently: Dialogues between feminist scholarship and dementia studies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. Revolutionising dementia policy and practice: Guidance from ‘the memory girl’, an accomplice \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. Taking a Queer Turn – the significance of Queer Theory for Critical Dementia Studies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. Neurodiversity and dementia: Pitfalls, possibilities and some personal notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19. Thinking back and looking ahead: Co-ordinates for critical methodologies in dementia studies \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018847846743,"sku":"9781032118802","price":118.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032118802.jpg?v=1750778380","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-dementia-studies-9781032118802","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}