Public Relations and Death
Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-09848-0 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-09848-0 (ISBN)
This volume for the first time examines the intricate and often obscured interplay between death and public relations across historical periods and within contemporary society. It will be of interest to scholars of public relations, communication studies, promotional marketing and public diplomacy.
This volume for the first time examines the intricate and often obscured interplay between death and public relations across historical periods and within contemporary society. Beyond its natural inevitability, death has functioned as a potent instrument for image and reputation management, the legitimisation of authority, and the construction of collective memory. From antiquity to the digital era, communicative practices have employed death not merely to commemorate the deceased, but also as a mechanism to consolidate dynastic power, disseminate ideological frameworks, and exert influence over the living. Relations to death and relations through death shape the society’s past, present and future.
This generative study explores the tensions between individual memory and official historiography, the strategic use of selective commemoration to legitimate political and cultural power and the role of public relations in shaping narratives of life and death across the arts, media, and political discourse.
This comprehensive volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of public relations, communication studies, promotional marketing and public diplomacy as well as critical historiography, thanatology, sociology, political philosophy, garbology, and discursive approaches to age and death.
This volume for the first time examines the intricate and often obscured interplay between death and public relations across historical periods and within contemporary society. Beyond its natural inevitability, death has functioned as a potent instrument for image and reputation management, the legitimisation of authority, and the construction of collective memory. From antiquity to the digital era, communicative practices have employed death not merely to commemorate the deceased, but also as a mechanism to consolidate dynastic power, disseminate ideological frameworks, and exert influence over the living. Relations to death and relations through death shape the society’s past, present and future.
This generative study explores the tensions between individual memory and official historiography, the strategic use of selective commemoration to legitimate political and cultural power and the role of public relations in shaping narratives of life and death across the arts, media, and political discourse.
This comprehensive volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of public relations, communication studies, promotional marketing and public diplomacy as well as critical historiography, thanatology, sociology, political philosophy, garbology, and discursive approaches to age and death.
Roumen Dimitrov is Honorary Academic of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Jordi Xifra is Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction 1. Death as Element of PR Historicity 2. Legitimating Power Through Selective Commemoration and Forgetting 3. Sites of Memory 4. Counter-Commemorations 5. Discourses of Death 6. Postself: Managing After-Death Identity and Image 7. Death in the Arts and Media 8. George A. Romero: (Un)Dead and Activist Public Relations Art 9. Rubbish, Public Relations and Immortality 10. Death and Promotion 11. Public Relations, Thanatopower and Necropolitics 12. Is Public Relations Dead?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 610 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-09848-5 / 1138098485 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-09848-0 / 9781138098480 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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