The Flint water crisis: An analysis of public relations as a mediator between human and corporate persons

- The Flint water crisis illuminates communicative intersections between government, corporate persons and human persons.
- The government's response to the crisis necessitated that General Motors engage in public relations and corporate responsibility.
- The crisis provides an opportunity to explore how corporate personhood is a theoretical justification for corporate responsibility.
- Fully Functioning Society Theory enriches understanding of the crisis and its implications.
- The Flint water crisis draws attention to issues of race, class and power.