Author Description

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 -- Neur