Book Talk with Samuel Shearer: Kilgali A New City for the End of the World
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University Libraries invites you to a faculty book talk with Dr. Samuel Shearer, whose new work offers a powerful and timely examination of urban transformation in Kigali, Rwanda. Kigali is an ethnography of a city undergoing continuous cycles of destruction and reconstruction—efforts driven by global visions of “sustainable urbanism” and climate-ready design.
Drawing on years of immersive fieldwork, Dr. Shearer traces how Kigali residents navigate the upheavals produced by these development projects and the broader catastrophes linked to climate change. The book offers a sharp critique of capitalist approaches to environmental crisis while illuminating the everyday strategies, forms of resistance, and alternative futures imagined by Kigali’s communities.
This conversation will explore the book’s key themes, the stakes of urban planning in the era of climate crisis, and the possibilities that emerge when cities and their residents imagine futures beyond neoliberal development.
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