[Commlist] Call for Papers for Special Section on 'PR, society and the generative power of history' in Public Relations Review

Call for Papers for Special Section on 'PR, society and the generative 
power of history' in /Public Relations Review/. Apologies for cross-posting.

Deadline: October 31, 2018

The starting point for the special section is the original meaning of 
history, which has its roots in the Greek word ἱστορία, translated by 
the Romans as /historia/ meaning ‘an inquiry’ or ‘knowledge acquired by 
investigation’. We use this as a springboard for engaging with 
interdisciplinary, critical and complex issues in the present and 
future, that public relations scholarship needs to address. In this 
sense, history has a place in contemporary experience and historical 
excursions are necessary whenever the present is being investigated. As 
James Baldwin notes:

‘[T]he great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it 
within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history 
is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, 
since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our 
identities, and our aspirations’ (James Baldwin, /The Price of the 
Ticket,/ 1965).

The papers in the special section will open up questions of how 
histories are put to use by people in different ways in order to explore 
how the past is constructed from the present; how the present is always 
historical, and how both past and present power imagined futures. 
Contributions will address the question of power and resistance explored 
from the perspective of promotional communication (management), traced 
across different phenomena (e.g. organizations, institutions, networks, 
societies) and fields of activity (e.g. sport, education, business, 
activism, government, arts). We invite submissions adopting a critical 
and interdisciplinary approach to topics which include, but are not 
limited to, the following areas:

·Profession

·Inequality, discrimination and social exclusion

·Influence and social change

·Theory/Historiography

·Culture

·Race/ethnicity

·National identity

·International communication

·Public diplomacy

·Corporate social responsibility

·Rhetoric

·

*Abstract submissions*

Submissions should be 5000 word full papers, prepared in accordance with 
the style of /Public Relations Review/. Deadline for submission is 
October 22 2018.

For questions about the special section, please email one of the guest 
editors:

Lee Edwards, (l.edwards2 /at/ lse.ac.uk) <mailto:(l.m.s.edwards /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>

Øyvind Ihlen, (oyvind.ihlen /at/ media.uio.no) <mailto:(oyvind.ihlen /at/ media.uio.no)>

Ian Somerville, (ijas1 /at/ leicester.ac.uk) <mailto:(ijas1 /at/ leicester.ac.uk)>

**

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/public-relations-review/call-for-papers/cfp-pr-society-and-the-generative-power-of-history

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