Over the decade since Bitcoin came into public consciousness with its first major bubble, scholars from a large variety of fields investigated this purportedly revolutionary technology and its impacts on society. However, it took some years before …
Disability is sometimes theorised as existing between the world (including social norms and infrastructure) and the person (who gets labelled disabled in a 'misfit' between the world and them). Disability is often enacted through data systems and …
Whether online or offline, questions of identities and identification have been a topic of ongoing discussion and debate in society for many years. In many Western societies, the last decades have seen an ever-growing emphasis placed upon the …
Dans l’espace public, le corps handicapé semble devenir public à son tour : on le touche, on contrôle ses déplacements et sa simple présence, on augmente enfin sa dépendance pour le forcer à être redevable des rares aménagements obtenus. Cet article …
This article investigates disabled people’s experiences of tattooing. On top of the usual aesthetic ends, disabled users have additonal reasons for body modifications, from hiding an impairment to reclaiming their bodies by embracing their …
Inadaptées, inaptes, indéterminées ou inachevées. Pourquoi relier trans* et crip ? Il existe plusieurs éléments de réponse, à commencer par le fait qu’on parle souvent des mêmes personnes : les personnes trans ont 2 à 4 fois plus de probabilité …
For the past two decades, representative institutions, political parties, and social movements have been using internet platforms to increase citizen participation in decision-making. This use of digital tools in participatory processes—whether …
Public institutions and private companies both frequently rely on user surveys for a variety of assessments (e.g. equality issues or quality of work environment). However, many such surveys struggle to garner sufficient responses, especially when …
While walking around a city, the temporary obstacles present on the sidewalk barely register in most people’s minds. The reality for people with disabilities is quite diff erent, whether it’s a scooter left in the way, crowds that refuse to budge or …