[Commlist] Public Relations Inquiry CfP: PR and Social Justice

Public Relations Inquiry Special Issue Call for Papers:

‘PR and Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Future 
Directions on the Impact of Public Relations and Promotional 
Communication on Human Rights and Social Inequalities’

Deadline (extended): 17 October 2024

Guest editors: Lee Edwards (London School of Economics and Political 
Science, UK), E. Ciszek (University Texas at Austin, USA), Jenny Hou 
(Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Kate Fitch (Monash 
University, Australia)

More details: 
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/pri/publicrelationsinquiry 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/page/pri/publicrelationsinquiry>

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. 
Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following questions:

- What role can PR and promotional practice play in making sense of and 
healing the widespread suffering of human and non-human beings?

- What tensions and contradictions characterise the ways in which PR and 
promotional tools are used to pursue human rights, social justice and 
equality?

- What can a more robust theoretical and empirical ‘conversation’ 
between PR scholars and other disciplines offer, in the pursuit of more 
impactful, justice-oriented scholarship?

- What can critical theory offer to PR and promotional communication 
scholars in deeply divided and increasingly polarised societies?

- How can PR and promotional communication research and practice address 
the structural inequalities and systematic issues that prevent the 
fulfilment of human rights across different contexts (including, but not 
limited to, environmental crises, health care, disaster management)?

- What is the role of PR and promotional communications in activism and 
advocacy around human rights?

- What (new) insights can a critical, human-centred approach to PR and 
promotional communication theory and practice provide about our 
collective (in)humanity in the digital age?

The deadline for submission is 17^October 2024. No payment from the 
authors will be required. For further details and guidelines about 
formatting your manuscript and submitting to /Public Relations 
Inquiry/ please visit: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/pri 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/pri>

For enquiries about this Special Issue, please email Dr E. Ciszek on 
(eciszek /at/ utexas.edu) <mailto:(eciszek /at/ utexas.edu)>


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