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.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Ch. 1 The Promise of Prosperity: Transplanting the 'New Realities' Ch. 2 Communicating the 'Practical Faith': The Historical Neoliberal and PR Nexus Ch. 3 'We Need a New Narrative': Neoliberalism and PR Language Practice Ch. 4 Happiness, Plastic Truth, and the Story of Climate Ch. 5 'Borderlands': PR and the Broken Moorings of Language Ch. 6 Airborne: PR, Plasticity and Pandemic Politics References Index

Highly recommended. Demetrious packs an immense amount of knowledge and thought-provoking analysis into her latest text, in which she addresses the political nature of public relations and its dissemination of neoliberalism. Public Relations and Neoliberalism will fare well as a required or highly recommended read for those studying and/or interested in working in public relations.

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.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Ch. 1 The Promise of Prosperity: Transplanting the 'New Realities' Ch. 2 Communicating the 'Practical Faith': The Historical Neoliberal and PR Nexus Ch. 3 'We Need a New Narrative': Neoliberalism and PR Language Practice Ch. 4 Happiness, Plastic Truth, and the Story of Climate Ch. 5 'Borderlands': PR and the Broken Moorings of Language Ch. 6 Airborne: PR, Plasticity and Pandemic Politics References Index

Highly recommended. Demetrious packs an immense amount of knowledge and thought-provoking analysis into her latest text, in which she addresses the political nature of public relations and its dissemination of neoliberalism. Public Relations and Neoliberalism will fare well as a required or highly recommended read for those studying and/or interested in working in public relations.

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.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Ch. 1 The Promise of Prosperity: Transplanting the 'New Realities' Ch. 2 Communicating the 'Practical Faith': The Historical Neoliberal and PR Nexus Ch. 3 'We Need a New Narrative': Neoliberalism and PR Language Practice Ch. 4 Happiness, Plastic Truth, and the Story of Climate Ch. 5 'Borderlands': PR and the Broken Moorings of Language Ch. 6 Airborne: PR, Plasticity and Pandemic Politics References Index

Highly recommended. Demetrious packs an immense amount of knowledge and thought-provoking analysis into her latest text, in which she addresses the political nature of public relations and its dissemination of neoliberalism. Public Relations and Neoliberalism will fare well as a required or highly recommended read for those studying and/or interested in working in public relations.