Table of Contents
Introduction: Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: framing public discourse

PART I: The Pandemic: historical, medical and racial configurations

1 Killing Fields: Pandemics, Geopolitics and Environmental Emergency

Graham Murdock

2 Biopolitics, Eugenics and the New State Racism

Ben Harbisher

3 The Subsumption of Racial Discrimination: the representation of Chinese mainstream media of the maltreatment of African nationals in Guangzhou during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Zhou Yang and Na Yuqi

PART II: Power, Crisis and Repression

4 The Cultural Politics of Crisis in the UK

Ben Whitham

5 UK Universities during Covid-19: catastrophic management, ‘business continuity’, and education workers

Stuart Price

6 Covid-19, Police Brutality and the systematic targeting of the black and disadvantaged population in Brazil

Fernanda Amaral

PART III: Journalism, Information and Structures of Argument during Covid-19

7 Just Following the Science: fact-checking journalism and the Government’s lockdown argumentation

Jen Birks

8 The burden of responsibility: Investigative journalism in South Africa during the Covid-19 crisis

Allen Munoriyarwa

9 "It's just a little flu": Covid, institutional crisis and information wars in Brazilian journalism - the Folha de São Paulo newspaper

Thaiane Oliveira, Rodrigo Quinan, Juliana Gagliardi, and Afonso de Albuquerque

PART IV: British Political Discourse during the Pandemic

10 The BBC and Covid-19: the Politicisation of a Pandemic?

Sumaya Alnahed

11 How the UK Government ‘turned on a sixpence’ to change its story: a discourse analysis of the No.10 daily coronavirus news conferences

Ruth Garland

12 Mortality, Blame Avoidance and the State: constructing Boris Johnson’s exit strategy

Leighton Andrews

PART V: Homelessness and Dispossession during the Pandemic

13 Has homeless rough sleeping in the UK and Europe been solved in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic?

Jo Richardson

14 Leper Islands: Coronavirus and the Homeless ‘Other’

Simon Stevens