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Q&A with Samuel Shearer, author of "Kigali"

Author and first-gen scholar Samuel Shearer discusses his book, "Kigali," an ethnography exploring the politics of urban design, displacement, and the dual crises of capitalism and ecology in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”

Authors Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca explain the larger story of inequality behind today's concussion crisis—and why many more people experience brain injury without the same attention afforded athletes.
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How Immigrant Workers Hold Up the Food System

Authors Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares on why there can be no quality or sustainable food for consumers if frontline immigrant workers are not treated with dignity and justice.
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Visions of Prisons: Wars, Walls, and Watching

by Michael Welch (Author)
Apr 2026
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Kigali: A New City for the End of the World

by Samuel Shearer (Author)
Oct 2025
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Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis

by Kathryn Henne (Author), Matt Ventresca (Author)
Aug 2025
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On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy

by Susan Bibler Coutin (Author)
Aug 2025
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