Public Relations Inquiry (special issue)

Deadline: October 17, 2024

This special issue aims to foster productive, interdisciplinary conversations between scholars across media and communications who have an interest in the influence of public relations (PR) and other promotional industries on struggles over rights, inequalities and social justice. Interest has grown in the importance of PR and promotion for both dominant groups and activist movements resisting domination and promoting social change. Interdisciplinary research – drawing on, for example, critical race theory, queer theory, feminism, political economy and cultural studies – has provided new ways of interrogating the power exercised by promotional industries in these contexts and extended our thinking far beyond functional deconstructions of organisational practice in the global North and West.

We invite papers that engage critically with PR and other promotional industries, tools and practices, as well as the ambivalence that promotion introduces both for those who claim rights and recognition, and for those who try to preserve their own power and privilege.

More details can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/pri/publicrelationsinquiry