Professor michael billig is one of the most significant living figures in social psychology his work spans thirty five years and has at times challenged conventional social scientific thinking on a range of key topics billig has influenced a wide range of fields including intergroup conflict social attitudes and ideology rhetoric racism nationalism humour psychoanalysis and popular . Rhetoric ideology and social psychology essays in honour of michael billig this book brings together expert accounts of billigs ideas on a wide range of issues in a single text each of the contributors explains the importance of billigs work for a specific area detailing its application to a particular social psychological problematic. Jowett a 2015 a review of rhetoric ideology and social psychology essays in honour of michael billig edited by charles antaki and susan condor east sussex routledge 2014 qmip bulletin 20 39 42. Professor michael billig is one of the most significant living figures in social psychology his work spans thirty five years and has at times challenged conventional social scientific thinking on a range of key topics billig has influenced a wide range of fields including intergroup conflict social attitudes and ideology rhetoric racism nationalism humour psychoanalysis and popular . If we are to follow michael billigs lead in our inquiries into how our own human capacity to think works and how we come to develop such a capacity in the first place we must move from thinking in static forms to thinking in terms of our dynamic