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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - Ideology Reframed: The Lived Experience of Ideology Part 1: THINKING: The Shape of Ideology 1. What is Ideology? 2. Ideology in Secret: Concealment, deception and the social bond 3. Decrypting Ideology: Of all the people, the people 4. The Ontologization of Ideology and Spinoza's Voluntary Servitude Part 2: READING: Ideology as Theory and Practice 5. Mapping Ideology and Poststructuralism: From negative foundations to politicizing thought via contingency and creativity 6. Literary Criticism, Ideology Critique, and State Thinking: The case of the French explication des textes 7. Ideology and the Idea: Revolution, revolt and the subversion of time in Furio Jesi 8. Melodrama as an American Ideology of Freedom Part 3: EXISTING: Ideology as Container 9. Water and Ideology as Lived Experience 10. Uber and the Chronopolitics of Control: On the Clock 11. The Planetary Turn and Ideology: Earthbound or Lost in Space? Part 4: ANTAGONISMS: Ideology as Culture and Identity 12. Negotiating Contradiction: To make socialism alive and livable 13. On the Production of Popular Reactionary Ideologies: Consensual subordination of capitalist democracies 14. José Carlos Mariátegui: Ideological Definition and the Americanist Utopia Part 5: NATURE: Ideology and the Anthropocene 15. Speciesism as Ideology: Bias in thought and practice 16. Displacement and Deracination: Memory, philosophy, wealth and remembering Katrina 17. Affect and Ideology in Popular Environmentalism: The case of pipeline opposition Part 6: INSTITUTING: The Sedimentation of Ideology 18. Experiencing Poverty Within International Development: Legally producing the millennial subject and the unsavable outcast 19. The Political Theology of Everyday Life 20. The Lived Experience of Ideology in US Public Schools: Violent ideological enclosures, human capabilities and education fugitivity 21. Microcosmographia Academica or Law on the Carousel Part 7: DESIRING: Ideology and Corporeality 22. Mapping Microfascism 23. A Desire for the Reconciliation of Desire: An ideological tale of the incommensurable 24. A New Materialism Account of the Fleshly Relationship Between the Black Woman and the Academy: "This Place Has Gotten Under My Skin!" Part 8: LIVES within Ideology 25. The everyday practice of Sankara's Revolution: “Imperialism is on your plate” 26. Kokuba Kotaro: Okinawa's Underground Communist Party and Its Dangerous Sexualities 27. Margaret Walker: Black Womanist Archival Traditions 28. Pasolini, Gramsci and Ideological Catastrophe