Faranak Miraftab is an Iranian-American urban scholar and is currently a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[1] She is known for her works on urban planning and development.[2][3][4][5][6][7] She is a winner of Davidoff Book Award and American Sociological Association's Global & Transnational Sociology section Book Award and a finalist in C. Wright Mills Book Award for her book Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking.[8][9][10]
Faranak Miraftab | |
|---|---|
فرانک میرآفتاب | |
| Awards | Davidoff Book Award C. Wright Mills Award (finalist) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) Norwegian Institute of Technology (MA) Tehran University, College of Fine Arts (BA) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | urban planning |
| Institutions | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Scientific contribution
editInsurgent planning
In line with urbanists John Friedmann, Victoria A. Beard and Leonie Sandercock, she considers insurgent planning according to three practices ; transgression, counter-hegemony and imagination.
For the first one, she uses the terms invited spaces and invented spaces to explain the transgression of the dichotomy between those, but also, transgression applies to national boundaries to build transnational solidarities, and time "through a historicized consciousness". For the other practices, counter-hegemony suggests the destabilization of the relations of dominance usually found in western urban planning, and imagination admits to welcome hope in order to advance towards desirable alternatives.[11] [12]
Books
edit- Miraftab, F. Salo, K. Huq, E. Aristabal D. and Ashtari A. (eds). Constructing Solidarities for a Humane Urbanism. Open source e-Book 2019
- Miraftab, F. Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2016
- Miraftab, F., D. Wilson and K. Salo (eds.) Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World. New York, London: Routledge 2015
- Miraftab, F. and N. Kudva (eds.) Cities of the Global South Reader. New York, London: Routledge 2015
References
edit- ^ "Iranian UI professor, ex-refugee feels travel ban's pain deeply". 7 February 2017.
- ^ "Current Fellows". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
- ^ Wilson, David; Bonds, Anne; Jonas, Andrew E. G.; Kobayashi, Audrey; Walker, Richard; Miraftab, Faranak (October 2016). "Global Heartland: Displaced Labor Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking". The AAG Review of Books. 4 (4): 244–254. doi:10.1080/2325548X.2016.1222844. ISSN 2325-548X.
- ^ Sandoval, Gerardo Francisco (March 2021). "Review: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking by Faranak Miraftab". Journal of Planning Education and Research. 41 (1): 119–121. doi:10.1177/0739456X19833762. ISSN 0739-456X. S2CID 150661313.
- ^ Brahinsky, Rachel (December 2017). "Book review: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking". Urban Studies. 54 (16): 3863–3867. Bibcode:2017UrbSt..54.3863B. doi:10.1177/0042098017733442. ISSN 0042-0980. S2CID 148662219.
- ^ Poster, Winifred R. (2018). "Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking by Faranak Miraftab (review)". Social Forces. 96 (3): 1–3. doi:10.1093/sf/sox072. ISSN 1534-7605.
- ^ Irazábal, Clara (May 2017). "Faranak Miraftab 2016: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking . Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 41 (3): 532–533. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12504.
- ^ "Faranak Miraftab".
- ^ "A Closer Look with Faranak Miraftab Paul Davidoff Book Award Winner".
- ^ "Small Town Urbanism in the 21st Century: Andrew Freear, Faranak Miraftab, and Todd Okolichany".
- ^ Miraftab, Faranak (February 2009). "Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South". Planning Theory. 8 (1): 32–50. doi:10.1177/1473095208099297. ISSN 1473-0952.
- ^ Miraftab, Faranak (22 December 2016). "Insurgência, planejamento e a perspectiva de um urbanismo humano | Insurgency, planning and the prospect of a humane urbanism". Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (in Portuguese). pp. 363–363. doi:10.22296/2317-1529.2016v18n3p363.
External links
edit- "Faranak Miraftab". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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