Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : why critical dementia studies and why now? / Linn J. Sandberg, Richard Ward

Part 1. Reclaiming and recasting

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

Recognising Birkby : living and caring with dementia / Wendy Hulko, Marsha Griffith, Birkby Griffith

Part 2. Re/framing

‘Lost in time like tears in rain’ : critical perspectives on personhood and dementia / Stephen Katz, 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

Part 3. Care and control

Precarity and dementia / Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson

An emerging necropolitics of the dementias / Hamish Robertson, 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, Richard Fleming

The carnival is not over : cultural resistance in dementia care environments / Andrea Capstick, John Chatwin

Part 4. Forging alliances

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, Linn J. Sandberg