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Research Article

The politics of testing positive: an autoethnography of media (mis)representations at the ‘start’ and ‘end’ of different pandemics

Max MorrisDepartment of Criminology and Sociology, Kingston University, Kingston-Upon-Thames, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1485-1499 | Received 01 Nov 2020, Accepted 11 May 2021, Published online: 11 Jun 2021

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