The Biopolitics of Dementia

A Neurocritical Perspective

James Rupert Fletcher (University of Manchester, UK)

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Routledge
24 November 2023

Psychological theory & schools of thought; Psychology of ageing; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Memory; Psychotherapy

Series: Dementia in Critical Dialogue

"This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy.

The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be overcome through technoscience. This biopolitics generates dementia’s public profile and is implicated in several problems, including the failure of drug discovery, the spread of stigma, the perpetuation of social inequalities and the lack of support that is available to people affected by dementia. Through a failure to critically engage with neuropsychiatric biopolitics, much dementia studies is complicit in these problems.

Drawing on insights from critical psychiatry and critical gerontology, this book explores these problems and the relations between them, revealing how they are facilitated by neuro-agnostic dementia studies work that lacks robust biopolitical critiques and sociopolitical alternatives. In response, the book makes the case for a more biopolitically engaged ""neurocritical"" dementia studies and shows how such a tradition might be realised through the promotion of a promissory sociopolitics of dementia.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Funded by University of Manchester, UK."

By: James Rupert Fletcher (University of Manchester UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781032504469
ISBN 10: 1032504463
Series: Dementia in Critical Dialogue
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 24 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: The Successful Failure of Dementia Research; 2. Studying Dementia: Post-1970s Divergences in Dementia Studies and the Alzheimer’s Movement; 3. Anti-(bio)medical; Neuro-agnostic: Why Dementia Studies Needs Neurocritical Responses to the Biopolitics of Dementia; 4. Deconstructing Biopolitical Commitments: A Neurocritical Analysis of Biogenic Disease, Normal Ageing and Promissory Futures80; 5. Making Dementia Curable: Circling Cognition, Biomarkers and Meaningfulness; 6. Destigmatising Normality: How the Awareness Economy Misconstrues and Perpetuates Stigma; 7. Moralising Ethnicity: Governance through the Racialisation of Outcomes; 8. The Political Economy of Dementia: Post-2008 Financialisation, Awareness-as-Welfare and Speculative Demographic Alarmism; 9. Conclusion: Promissory Sociopolitical Histories

James Rupert Fletcher is Wellcome Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. His research covers several areas of the dementia economy, with an emphasis on using social theory and methods to understand dementia as a political entity. He has published on subjects including informal dementia care networks, mental capacity legislation and its influence on research governance, the anti-ageing technoscience market, anti-stigma and awareness-raising campaigns regarding psychiatric disorder, the operationalisation of ethnicity and age in research, the biomarker discovery economy, the curation of dementia-friendly cultural events, dementia prevention public health strategies and environmental effects on cognition in urban settings. His lecturing spans medical sociology, the sociology of ageing, social research methods and ethical governance