founded by the psychiatrist Jean Oury in 1953. This “psychiatry with a human face,” as Oury used to call it, originated in the work of François Tosquelles, a Spanish Marxist psychiatrist who, during the Spanish Civil War, used to take his patients to the seaside for a swim...
In October 2008, the large-scale civil disobedience campaign Luk Lejren (Close the Camps) strove to close down the asylum seekers’ arrival centre in Denmark, the Sandholm camp, in protest against the structural racism that the place both symbolises and enacts.(5) The action proved to be an...
Overall, however, the broader environmental movement is not particularly present in most of the exhibition as anything other than a historical phenomenon whose point of origin is the Mardøla action, the first-ever case in Norway of organised civil disobedience in the service of nature. This bec...
Acknowledging that things can change fast, a symbol of the new gender order could be artist Anna Odell’s feature film, which opens at Göteborg Film Festival 25 January. The film is calledThe Examination, and offers notorious cultural toughs like actor Mikael Persbrandt and author Jan Guillou...