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How academic partners navigate theory versus practice in reparations research

My research partner and I are writing about reparations and we keep getting stuck on whether focusing on philosophical arguments undermines the urgency of practical implementation. She thinks I'm intellectualizing something that demands immediate action, and I think rushing past the conceptual foundation will make any program unstable.

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Collaborators must balance intellectual rigor with moral urgency when studying justice requires both understanding and action.

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