Center for Metanoia Studies (Centre d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires de la Métanoïa)

Alexis de La Ferriere has been invited to participate in a conference at the University of Messina on Religious Freedom of Minority Groups in Times of Ongoing Crisis.

Alexis de La Ferriere’s contribution is entitled Meaning making in times of crisis management: moral interpretations of emergency rules. Existing studies of meaning making in times of crisis focus on actors’ interpretations of the event itself (flood, pandemic, invasion, etc.), but not on their interpretation of the public authority’s response to the event. However, in modern societies public policies like emergency rules condition how actors are exposed to a crisis event and the media-driven narrative of public policy mediates how actors subjectively interpret that event. Emergency rules are an integral part of the social ecology of modern crises, and those rules inform the meaning that we attribute to a crisis situation as much as the primary effects of the event itself. 

The conference is sponsored by ICLARS and DiReSoM.