242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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?
Biography
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.
