Faranak Miraftab | |
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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 |
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]
Insurgent 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]
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