Kristin Demetrious explores her thesis through a broad scope analysis of neoliberalism; human-induced climate change; human rights of relocation to nation-states; and the very notion of public debate itself. This major text tackles public relations from discursive and humanitarian perspectives that challenge the status quo and stretches our imaginations as to where public relations studies may go in the future..
Kristin Demetrious is an Associate Professor of Communication at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. Kristin's research investigates power in public relations and its language practices through a number of social sites such as activism and gender using a socio-cultural lens to explore how it can create and control forms of identity and shape public debates that set policy directions.