The Cultural Dynamic of The Crisis

This chapter provides a cultural interpretation of the current scenario of socio-institutional crisis through the lens of SCPT. The analysis focuses on the recursive interplay between the socioeconomic transformations and the culturally framed way in which peoples make sense of them. At the core of the interpretation discussed in the chapter lies the recognition of the role played by affective sensemaking in the public domain – or the “affectivisation of the public sphere” according to the terms adopted. Several manifestations of this dynamics are analysed together with a general interpretation of it as the way broad segments of societies adapt to regulate semiotically the uncertainty fostered by socio-economic turmoil.