Johanna Fawkes Research

My new book Depth Public Relations: After the Masquerade will be published by Routledge this December. It takes a cool look at PR’s contribution to the dominant culture, focussing on the climate crisis. Instead of (as well as) despair, it offers the possibility for depth responses, drawing on approaches from psychology philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Full blurb and contents here: https://www.routledge.com/Depth-Public-Relations-After-the-Masquerade/Fawkes/p/book/9780815358732

Lovely comments from Prof. Rob Brown:

“In her ambitiously comprehensive, deeply researched, gracefully written, socio-cultural scholarly tour-de-force, Professor Fawkes expands the aperture of public relations, while offering a compelling critique of the concept and the practice. What comes into focus is much that has been obscured by PR’s traditional managerial perspective. Her achievement is to give us a long and deep look at ways of conceptualizing PR beyond the limitations of the older model without throwing out the communication-management baby with the socio-cultural bathwater. Fawkes’s insights are likely to resonate with PR and other disciplinary scholars, teachers and students as well as thoughtful practitioners of the persuasive industries. As a critical scholar, Fawkes has not neglected a certain ‘inwardness’ in PR, which identifies, in a minor key, the field’s increasingly intentional, aspirational and redemptive humanism.”

Robert E. Brown (PhD), Emeritus Professor of Media and Communication, Salem State University and Affiliated Faculty, Communication Studies, Emerson College.

There’s a discount on the Routledge page or DM me for further info.