Treena Clark

University of Technology Sydney | UTS · Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building

This chapter contributes to the research of activism practices within First Nations Australian public relations by highlighting the qualitative stories of First Nations women contributing to the First Nations rights movement. Through a First Nations women’s positionality and interview approach, five First Nations women from urban areas and various...

Decolonial scholars call for fashion definitions and perspectives from all cultures, and this article responds to these requests. Numerous theories and positions have inspired and shaped this conceptual model, including valuable insight from First Nations scholars who have explored fashion theories that integrate First Nations philosophies and onto...

Drawing on communication, feminist studies and public relations scholarship, this interdisciplinary paper contributes to feminist perspectives on public relations in order to draw attention to the disciplinary implications of the ongoing exclusion of diverse women’s voices and the ways gendered exclusion is exacerbated by the marginalisation of voi...

The role of activism is important in the field of Indigenous Australian public relations as a strategy for creating change and giving back to Indigenous people and communities. However, there is a dearth of information on how, when, and why Indigenous women employed in public relations engage in activist practices. This paper aims to help fill this...

This paper argues that the public relations sphere needs to have better understanding and more representation and acknowledgment of Indigenous women’s contemporary experiences and contributions. Indigenous Australian women experience multiple oppressions, such as Eurocentric and patriarchal control and, within the broader areas of Indigenous, women...

The Public Relations Institute of Australia defines public relations as the deliberate, planned and sustained effort to establish mutual understanding between an organization and its publics. In an Indigenous Australian context, public relations should move beyond this simplistic and western-centric definition by including a diversity of cultural d...

This article uses a case study to interrogate the role of public relations in the power imbalance between a mining company and the Traditional Owners of land in Australia, and to explore how public relations could be used to strengthen the voices and reputations of disenfranchised communities. The literature review finds the practice of public rela...