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Faranak Miraftab

Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1995

Professor Miraftab's area of research interest concerns social aspects of urban development. In this broad area she is interested in the access to housing and basic urban services by low-income groups and women in particular. Her research has focused on community-based strategies and mobilizations, non-governmental non-profit organizations and grassroots movements, and a range of issues critical to processes of participatory community development planning including the contested notions of empowerment, participation, and development. Her studies span over several countries including Iran, Norway, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the United States.

In her teaching Professor Miraftab covers multi-cultural understanding of cities as social processes; community development and the role of grassroots mobilizations; and the reconfigured state-society relations for provision of basic services and housing within the dominant global neoliberal policy framework.

Contact Information
Room 218, Temple Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217.265.8238
Fax: 217.244.1717
E-mail: faranak@uiuc.edu

Current Research Areas

Housing, community development, NGOs, gender and development, planning and diversity issues in relation to immigrants, ethnic minorities, variations in household types, and gender.

Selected Publications

2007

Beard, V, Miraftab, F and C Silver (eds). Forthcoming. Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South. New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis).

2007

Miraftab, F. Forthcoming. "Governing Post-apartheid Spatiality: Implementing City Improvement Districts in Cape Town." Antipode: Radical Journal of Geography.

2006 2006.   “Informalizing the Means of Reproduction: The Case of Waste Collection Services in Cape Town, South Africa,” in Beneria, Lourdes and Neema Kudva (eds.) Rethinking Informalization: Precarious Jobs, Poverty and Social Protection. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University e-Publishing Program. Pp 148-162.  Open access http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3716
2006

Miraftab, F. "Feminist Praxis, Citizenship and Informal Politics: Reflections on South Africa’s Anti-Eviction Campaign." International Feminist Journal of Politics vol. 8.

2006

Miraftab, F. "On Loan from Home: Women’s Participation in Formulating Human Settlements Policies” in Jaquette, Jane and Gale Summerfield (eds.) Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization: Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice. Duke University Press.

2005

Miraftab F. and S. Wills. “Insurgency and Spaces of Active Citizenship: The Story of Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 25(2):200-217. (JPER-AEC.pdf)

2005

Miraftab, F. “Making Neoliberal Governance: The Disempowering Work of Empowerment.” International Planning Studies 9(4):239-259. (IPS-Miraftab.pdf)

2004

Miraftab, F. “Can you Belly Dance? Methodological Questions in the Era of Transnational Feminist Research.” Gender, Place and Culture: Journal of Feminist Geography 11(4):595-604.
(GPC-Miraftab.pdf)

2004

Miraftab, F. “Neoliberalism and Casualization of Public Sector Services: The Case of Waste Collection Services in Cape Town, South Africa.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28(4): 874-92. (IJURR-Miraftab.pdf)

2004

Miraftab, F. “Public-private Partnerships: the Trojan Horse of Neoliberal Development?” Journal of Planning Education and Research 24(1):89-101.
(Trojan horse.pdf)

2003

Miraftab, F. “ The Perils of Participatory Discourse: Housing Policy in Post-apartheid South Africa .” Journal of Planning Education and Research. 22(3):226-239. (Perils of participation-JPER.pdf)

2001

Miraftab, F. “Risks and Opportunities in Gender Gaps to Access Shelter: A Platform for Intervention.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 15(1):143-160.

2000

Miraftab, F. “Sheltering Refugees: The Housing Experience of Refugees in the Metropolitan Vancouver, Canada.” Canadian Journal of Urban Research. Vol. 9(1): 42-63.

1999

Miraftab, F. “ Sustainability in Environmental Design: Case Studies from the Vernacular Tradition in Iran.” Australian Planner Vol. 36 (4): 210-215.

1998

Miraftab, F. “Complexities of the Margin: Housing Decisions of Female Householders in Mexico.” Society and Space: Environment and Planning D Vol. 16: 289-310.

1997

Miraftab, F. “Flirting with the Enemy: Challenges Faced by NGOs in Development and Empowerment.” Habitat International Vol 21 (4):361-375.
(Flirting with the enemy-habitatlnt.pdf)

1997

Miraftab, F. “Revisiting Informal Sector Homeownership: The Relevance of Household Compositions for Housing Options of the Poor.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. June Vol 21(2): 303-322.
(IJURR-1997.pdf)

1996

Miraftab, F. "Space, Gender and Work: Home-Based Workers in Guadalajara, Mexico,” in Eileen Boris and Elisabeth Prugl (eds.) Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More. New York: Routledge. Pp.63-80.

1994

Miraftab, F. “(Re)Production at Home: Reconceptualizing Home and Family." Journal of Family Issues Sept. Vol. 15(3): 467-489.

1993

Miraftab, F. "Shelter as Sustenance: Exclusionary Mechanisms Limiting Women's Access to Housing," in Hemalata Dandekar (ed.) Shelter, Women and Development. Ann Arbor: Wahr Publishing Co. Pp. 225-233.


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