 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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