Rethinking dementia and the arts through feminist material perspectives is to create situations in which the distinction between those with and those without a dementia become irrelevant, and where a connectivity can emerge through common aesthetic experiences.
Author
Ann Therese Lotherington

Ann Therese Lotherington
Ann Therese Lotherington is a political scientist and a sociologist with MA from University of Oslo, and PhD from UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She is Professor of Sociology at UiT’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Research and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. Her research interests relate to understanding political processes from an everyday life perspective, and she develops and applies a theoretical approach combining new material feminisms and relational citizenship. In her most recent research project she adds relational aesthetics to her theorisation of experimental arts interventions with people living with a dementia.