Katarzyna Boni is an author living between Warsaw and Asia. Her book, Ganbare!: Workshops of Dying, which tells the story of overcoming trauma in post-tsunami and post-Fukushima Japan, will be published in the US later this year.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.