Metropolitics

Giving Voice to Stammerers

Abigail Bourguignon & translated by Oliver Waine — 2024-03-19T06:00:00Z

By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This kind of non-mixity fosters a distancing from the norms of good speech, but it does not eradicate language inequalities between people who stammer.
From the beginning of the 20th century, patient movements have challenged the social control exercised by the medical establishment (Barbot 2002; Pinell and Broqua 2002). Self-help and talk groups, developed in the United States in the

- Essays / handicap, stigmate, disabilities, language, non-mixity, stigma, stigmatization, health

The Handicaps of Handicapped Housing

Catherine Carpentier & Emmanuelle Colboc & translated by Eric Rosencrantz — 2011-04-13T06:25:00Z

Since February 2005, all new and renovated housing in France has to meet standards of accessibility for the disabled. In the authors' opinion, not only do these regulations reduce usable floor space, above all they constitute an indiscriminate – and inappropriate – approach that detracts from the quality of the housing and impoverishes the architecture.
Everyone agrees nowadays that there is a housing shortage in France, particularly for the most disadvantaged among us. Even though new

- Debates / architecture, construction, housing, disabilities