Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History examines how histories are used to explore how the past is constructed from the present, how the present is always historical, and how both past and present can Power imagined futures.
He has over 120 publications where he applies theories of rhetoric and sociology to the study of Public relations. .
She is the author of books, book chapters and empirical studies in the leading journals in the field of communication scholarship. yvind Ihlen is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo and co-director of POLKOM - Centre for the Study of Political Communication.
She teaches and researches strategic communication from a critical perspective.
Lee Edwards is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
His most recent book is International Public Relations: Perspectives from Deeply Divided Societies (Routledge, 2017).
His research has been published in international communication, PR, politics and sociology journals and in various edited collections.
About the Author Ian Somerville is Head of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester.
This volume is a valuable teaching resource for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates studying Public relations, strategic communications, political communication and organisational communication.
Featuring contributions from leading academics, this book challenges traditional PR historiography and contests the \'lessons\' derived from existing literature to address the implications of key areas of critically engaged PR theory.
Part III engages with \'Histories of Public Relations in the political sphere, \' bringing together work on the different ways in which Public Relations has evolved in changing political contexts, both formally as a function within political institutions and in the context of contributions to broader narratives of nationalism and identity.
The theme of Part II is \'Historicising gender, ethnicity and diversity in PR work, \' focusing on how gendered and racialised identities have been constructed and resisted both within the profession and through the result of its work.
Part I examines the History of corporate PR, the centrality of the corporation in PR scholarship and the possibility of resisting corporate hegemony through PR efforts.
Divided into three distinct parts, the book uses historical inquiry as a springboard for engaging with interdisciplinary, critical and complex issues in the past and present.
Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History examines how histories are used to explore how the past is constructed from the present, how the present is always historical, and how both past and present can Power imagined futures
