The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and Temporality
Adrian Little editor Anne McNevin editor Hamza Bin Jehangir editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:16th Dec '26
£260.00
This title is due to be published on 16th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and Temporality begins from the premise that time, in all its manifestations, is crucial to understanding how ideology works.
Each chapter focuses on a particular concept – an affect, process or condition – that shapes the socio-political environment and offers a distinctly temporal analysis of its ideological dimensions. Bringing together a diverse range of scholars from across the social sciences, the volume shows how meaning is both created and contested through the memory, narration and imagination of past, present and future.
This handbook will be an essential reference for students and scholars of ideologies in a range of disciplines including political theory, international relations, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, geography and development studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and Temporality is part of the mini-series Routledge Handbooks on Political Ideologies, Practices and Interpretations, edited by Michael Freeden.
“While it is not particularly controversial to say that life is unimaginable without some sense of time, the same cannot be said of ideology as traditionally understood in politics and international relations. Edited by a trio of stalwart scholars, this pathbreaking handbook sets out to change that, showing that – like time and temporality – ideologies and ideological processes run right through the heart of a number of social spaces, historical eras, and phenomena that we might not commonly think of as ideologically inflected. Using conceptual analysis to trace dynamic and contingent ideological forms, its chapters disclose the interplay of ideology and temporality in diverse affective and practical processes, as well as complex social milieux. Thanks to its expansive and pluralist chapters, readers of The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and Temporality will discover ideology and time working not only in new ways but also in unlikely and conventionally ‘apolitical’ places.”
Andrew Hom, University of Edinburgh, UK
“What does time have to do with ideology? Everything, says this outstanding book. Not only are ideologies dynamic rather than fixed; they are also informed by often unspoken ideas about origins, continuity, rupture, progress, decline, delay, inheritance, crisis, repetition, and the future. Essential reading for understanding how ideology works.”
Alexandre Lefebvre, The University of Sydney, Australia
ISBN: 9781032785219
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
368 pages