| | Preface by Robert L. Heath | | |
| | Acknowledgments | | |
PART I | | Mind, Self, and Society by Robert L. Heath | | 1 |
Chapter 1 | | Public Relations in the Enactment of Civil Society by Maureen Taylor | | 5 |
Chapter 2 | | Strategic Management of Communication: Insights From the Contingency Theory of Strategic Conflict Management by Glen T. Cameron | | 17 |
Chapter 3 | | Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: The Behavioral, Strategic Management Paradigm in Public Relations and Its Future by Lan Ni | | 35 |
Chapter 4 | | The Cursed Sisters: Public Relations and Rhetoric by Øyvind Ihlen | | 59 |
Chapter 5 | | Implications of Complexity Theory for Public Relations: Beyond Crisis by Priscilla Murphy | | 71 |
Chapter 6 | | Signs of the Times: Economic Sciences, Futures, and Public Relations by David McKie | | 85 |
Chapter 7 | | Publics and Public Relations: Effecting Change by Judy Motion | | 99 |
Chapter 8 | | Correspondence(s) to Reality: A Reconstructive Approach to Public Relations by Gunter Bentele | | 111 |
Chapter 9 | | Dialogue as a Basis for Stakeholder Engagement: Defining and Measuring the Core Competencies by Nigel M. de Bussy | | 127 |
Chapter 10 | | "Making It Real": Anthropological Reflections on Public Relations, Diplomacy, and Rhetoric by Jacquie LEtang | | 145 |
Chapter 11 | | Social Construction and Public Relations by Katerina Tsetsura | | 163 |
Chapter 12 | | Public Relations and Power by Jeffrey L. Courtright | | 177 |
Chapter 13 | | Power and Public Relations: Paradoxes and Programmatic Thoughts by Shirley Leitch | | 191 |
Chapter 14 | | "Race" in Public Relations by Lee Edwards | | 205 |
Chapter 15 | | Toward an Intersectionality Theory of Public Relations by Natalie T. J. Tindall | | 223 |
Chapter 16 | | Does Public Relations Scholarship Have a Place in Race? by Damion Waymer | | 237 |
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