UID:
almahu_9949385292402882
Format:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781003147299
,
1003147291
,
9781000532555
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1000532550
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9781000532616
,
1000532615
Content:
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 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 rationales offered for state/corporate intervention in public life. Delving beneath established political tropes and state rhetoric, it identifies the power relations exposed by an event that was described as unprecedented and unique, but was in fact comparable to other major global disruptions. As governments insisted on distinguishing their own propaganda from unregulated disinformation, their increasingly sceptical 'publics' pursued their own idiosyncratic solutions to the crisis, while the apparent sacrifice of a host of citizens - from the most dedicated to the most vulnerable - suggested that inequality and exploitation remained at the heart of the social order. Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic is essential reading for students, researchers and academics in media, communication and journalism studies, politics, environmental sciences, critical discourse analysis, cultural studies, and the sociology of health.
Note:
Introduction: Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: framing public discoursePART I: The Pandemic: historical, medical and racial configurations1 Killing Fields: Pandemics, Geopolitics and Environmental EmergencyGraham Murdock2 Biopolitics, Eugenics and the New State RacismBen Harbisher3 The Subsumption of Racial Discrimination: the representation of Chinese mainstream media of the maltreatment of African nationals in Guangzhou during the Covid-19 PandemicZhou Yang and Na YuqiPART II: Power, Crisis and Repression 4 The Cultural Politics of Crisis in the UKBen Whitham5 UK Universities during Covid-19: catastrophic management, 'business continuity', and education workersStuart Price6 Covid-19, Police Brutality and the systematic targeting of the black and disadvantaged population in BrazilFernanda AmaralPART 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 Birks8 The burden of responsibility: Investigative journalism in South Africa during the Covid-19 crisisAllen Munoriyarwa9 "It's just a little flu": Covid, institutional crisis and information wars in Brazilian journalism - the Folha de São Paulo newspaperThaiane Oliveira, Rodrigo Quinan, Juliana Gagliardi, and Afonso de AlbuquerquePART IV: British Political Discourse during the Pandemic10 The BBC and Covid-19: the Politicisation of a Pandemic? Sumaya Alnahed11 How the UK Government 'turned on a sixpence' to change its story: a discourse analysis of the No.10 daily coronavirus news conferences Ruth Garland12 Mortality, Blame Avoidance and the State: constructing Boris Johnson's exit strategyLeighton AndrewsPART V: Homelessness and Dispossession during the Pandemic13 Has homeless rough sleeping in the UK and Europe been solved in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic? Jo Richardson14 Leper Islands: Coronavirus and the Homeless 'Other' Simon Stevens
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780367706302
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003147299
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003147299
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