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 2 Biopolitics, Eugenics and the New State Racism 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 PART II: Power, Crisis and Repression 4 The Cultural Politics of Crisis in the UK 5 UK Universities during Covid-19: catastrophic management, ‘business continuity’, and education workers 6 Covid-19, Police Brutality and the systematic targeting of the black and disadvantaged population in Brazil 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 8 The burden of responsibility: Investigative journalism in South Africa during the Covid-19 crisis 9 "It's just a little flu": Covid, institutional crisis and information wars in Brazilian journalism - the Folha de São Paulo newspaper PART IV: British Political Discourse during the Pandemic 10 The BBC and Covid-19: the Politicisation of a Pandemic? 11 How the UK Government ‘turned on a sixpence’ to change its story: a discourse analysis of the No.10 daily coronavirus news conferences 12 Mortality, Blame Avoidance and the State: constructing Boris Johnson’s exit strategy 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? 14 Leper Islands: Coronavirus and the Homeless ‘Other’