The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis
Mathew Humphrey editor David Laycock editor Juliette Faure editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:25th Mar '26
£230.00
This title is due to be published on 25th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This handbook offers a key interdisciplinary reference to advance ideology analysis.
Expert contributors from the social sciences and humanities focus on the sources and construction of ideology and related processes of ideological transmission across time and space in political and social realms. Authors examine diverse forms of ideological activity, focusing on their interplay with institutions, organisations and cultural practices at macro, meso and micro levels. Chapters analyse vectors of ideological creation and transmission such as political parties, social movements, think tanks, organised groups, and traditional and social media, as well as historical writing, literature and the visual arts. This volume demonstrates how a variety of complementary methods can aid our understanding of ideological creation, transmission and reception across macro, meso and micro fields.
The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis is an authoritative reference for students and scholars in political and social theory, political science, sociology and anthropology, cultural studies, literature, communications and history.
The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis is part of the mini-series ‘Routledge Handbooks on Political Ideologies, Practices and Interpretations’ edited by Michael Freeden.
“This comprehensive collection of cutting-edge work confirms what its authors have been telling us for decades: reports of the end of ideology are greatly exaggerated. The category remains descriptive of how politics happens across diverse settings and provides a crucial conceptual framework for understanding contemporary political actors, institutions and movements. The wide-ranging, grounded, and theoretically innovative chapters collected here are a remarkable resource for thinking, research and teaching. This could not have come at better time.”
Darin Barney, McGill University, Canada
“This is a remarkably strong volume, invaluable for anyone interested in the history, sociology, and theory of contemporary ideologies. The texts gathered here shed new light on the ways ideologies are produced, disseminated, and received. In a world where ideas truly matter, this book makes a vital contribution to our collective capacity to navigate it.”
Samuel Hayat, Sciences Po Paris, France
“Ideology analysis has been a fertile and versatile field in the study of politics. This wide-ranging and cutting-edge volume beautifully demonstrates its continued vitality. It will be essential reading for students of politics in all its dimensions.”
Cécile Laborde, University of Oxford, UK
“Ideologies abound in the contemporary world but can rarely be reduced to a few canonical texts. This volume shows us how to study them as elements in a wider ecology of institutions, organisations and communications, from parties and think-tanks to workplaces and digital platforms. An invaluable contribution to renewing the field.”
Jonathan White, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
ISBN: 9781032534350
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554 pages