This handbook bridges explicit treatments of ethical issues in communication and implicit considerations of ethics, putting under one umbrella analyses and applications that draw upon recognised ethical theories and those which engage important questions of power, equality, and justice.

This book reconfigures the field of public relations so that it can better engage with the changing world of the 21st century. It identifies the virtual absence of contemporary theories that are core in other disciplines and fills the gap by integrating critical, postmodern, poststructural, postcolonial and other relevant theories into public relations. Reconfiguring Public Relations reenergises thinking about diversity through equity and in terms of business enterprise and environmental sustainability. It makes the case for more equitable diversity strategies in an era of increasing...