[Commlist] Publication, January 2022: edited volume - Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic: framing public discourse

/Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic: framing public discourse /is 
published by this month by Routledge.

The volume is edited by Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher - link here, and 
below that, for ease of reference, the list of contents.


https://www.routledge.com/Power-Media-and-the-Covid-19-Pandemic-Framing-Public-Discourse/Price-Harbisher/p/book/9780367706326 
	


This edited collection provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary critique 
of the acts of public communication disseminated during a major global 
crisis. Encompassing contributions from academics working in the fields 
of politics, environmentalism, citizens’ rights, state theory, cultural 
studies, journalism, and discourse/rhetoric, the book offers an original 
insight into the relationship ...


*CONTENTS*

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_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’, & 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*

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