Hybridity and Ideology
About this ebook
Employing concepts and methods drawn from ideology studies, discourse theory, and cultural studies, Leonard Williams and Benjamin Franks explore the meaning of hybridity, the processes by which ideologies hybridize, and the political implications of the blended ideologies that result. Their hybrid inquiry fashions a theoretical vocabulary and framework for understanding and studying ideological hybridization.
Using examples from a broad spectrum of ideologies, the book discusses the characteristic patterns by which hybrids are constructed from parent ideologies. It explores the operations and processes that enable hybrids to emerge from other ideologies and develop within social and political contexts. Lastly, it addresses how ideologies provide resources for political action and discusses the criteria for judging the success of hybrid ideologies.
Hybridity and Ideology offers insight into the dynamic processes of hybridization central to ideological transformation and political change. It provides a helpful resource for students and researchers in political theory, cultural studies, and philosophy.
About the author
Leonard Williams is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Manchester University in North Manchester, Indiana. He also taught at Georgetown University in Qatar and Texas Tech University. He authored Black Blocks, White Squares: Crosswords With an Anarchist Edge (2021) and American Liberalism and Ideological Change (1997). Moreover, he co-edited, with Benjamin Franks and Nathan Jun, Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach (Routledge, 2018) and, with Joseph Losco, Political Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings (1992).
Benjamin Franks is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow’s Dumfries Campus. He is the author of Anarchisms, Postanarchisms and Ethics (2020) and Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms (2006) and the co-author of Environmental Ethics and Behaviour Change (Routledge, 2016). Also, he co-edited, with Nathan Jun and Leonard Williams, Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach (Routledge, 2018).
