1. What is public relations, where is public relations? -- 2. Agents of social change and the dispersal of ideas -- 3. "No protest zone" : public relations and the management of activism -- 4. Worlds collide : public relations, activism and late modernity -- 5. New social realities : grassroots...

In 2001, the Victorian state government approved the construction of a 500‐megawatt power station at Stonehaven by US multinational corporation, AES Power One. In 2002 plans had stalled and the company had withdrawn from the process. By March, 2002 the state government flagged that the power...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse why some contemporary corporate organisations are reluctant to articulate the effect of their market positioning behaviour on the unwilling communities that oppose their activities. It describes the communicative interactions between several large corporate...

Although there is a small body of feminist scholarship that problematizes gender in public relations, gender is a relatively undefined area of thinking in the field and there have been few serious studies of the socially constructed roles defining women and men in public relations.This book is...

1. Surface effects : public relations and the politics of gender / Kristin Demetrious -- 2. Caring about public relations and the gendered cultural intermediary role / Anne Surma and Christine Daymon -- 3. Interrogating inequalities perpetuated in a feminized field : using critical race theory...