This ground-breaking handbook reviews, consolidates, and develops the growth of scholarship on ideology as it occurs as part of our political landscape and within the systems of thought and belief that collectively constitute our political subjectivity.

It presents ideology functioning on the level of imagination and representation, as a written and verbal language, but also expressed through architecture, art, media technologies, by work, by ritual practices and other forms of material practice. It suggests how there are critical material aspects whenever human beings interact with the world and how ideology serves to map that interaction. Bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of expert contributors, this handbook emphasises the diversity of existing research and details the key developments in the area from across the globe.

The Routledge Handbook on the Lived Experience of Ideology is an authoritative key reference text for students, academics and researchers of ideologies, critical theory, feminism, post-colonial theory, affect theory, political theory, critical legal studies, political science, and more broadly to sociology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and cultural and communication studies.

The Routledge Handbook on the Lived Experience of Ideology is part of the mini-series Routledge Handbooks on Political Ideologies, Practices and Interpretations, edited by Michael Freeden.