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9780190678395

Public Relations and Neoliberalism The Language Practices of Knowledge Formation

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    9780190678395

  • ISBN10:

    0190678399

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-10-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Focusing on two of the most fraught and intractable public debates of the present time: human-induced climate change and the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and the stateless, this book raises critical questions about the role and relationship of public relations in weakening democratic political systems. It shows a clear, but often indirect, link between PR and a neoliberal agenda that has been vastly underestimated and oversimplified as "spin." This comes at a great cost for society.

Public Relations and Neoliberalism provides a panoramic view of public relations from the post-war period, when a powerful communication template propelled by the PR industry served the neoliberal agenda to create political diversion, division, and hegemony at the same time. But today, public relations is not just a tool of industry or government. Rather, it has become the default mode and style of being and relating in the world, that seeps into and affects all areas of life: professional, corporate, domestic, political, activist, and technological. And the metastasis of neoliberal meaning into so many realms has important ramifications for society and individuals. Looking at the confluences and contradictions within the logic of public relations both as a practice and in terms of how it has been theorized and understood, this book provides an important contribution to critical work in the communicative field.

Author Biography


Kristin Demetrious is an Associate Professor of Communication at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. Kristin's research investigates power in public relations and its language practices through a number of social sites such as activism and gender using a socio-cultural lens to explore how it can create and control forms of identity and shape public debates that set policy directions.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ch. 1 The Promise of Prosperity: Transplanting the 'New Realities'

Ch. 2 Communicating the 'Practical Faith': The Historical Neoliberal and PR Nexus

Ch. 3 'We Need a New Narrative': Neoliberalism and PR Language Practice

Ch. 4 Happiness, Plastic Truth, and the Story of Climate

Ch. 5 'Borderlands': PR and the Broken Moorings of Language

Ch. 6 Airborne: PR, Plasticity and Pandemic Politics

References

Index

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