Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic

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<P>This edited collection provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary critique of the acts of public communication disseminated during a major global crisis. </P><P>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 between the various social forces that contributed to the ''Covid narrative''. The subjects analysed here include: the performance of the ''mainstream'' media, the quality of political ''messaging'' and argumentation, the securitised state and racism in Brazil, the growth of ''catastrophic management'' in UK universities, emergent journalistic practices in South Africa, homelessness and punitive dispossession, the pandemic and the history of eugenics, and the Chinese media''s attempt to disguise discriminatory practices. This is one of the first comparative studies of the various rationa