Faranak Miraftab on “Insurgent Practices of Hope and Care for Humane Urbanism"

In the first episode, Professor Faranak Miraftab will talk about “Insurgent Practices of Hope and Care for Humane Urbanism". She is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus on Community Development for Social Justice and Transnational Planning. Her scholarship is situated at the intersection of sociology, geography, planning, and feminist studies, using case study and ethnographic methodologies. Her research concerns social and institutional aspects of urban development and planning, that address basic human needs, including housing and urban infrastructure and the services that support them. She is particularly interested in the global and local development processes and contingencies involved in the formation of the city and citizens’ struggles for dignified livelihood — namely, how groups disadvantaged by class, gender, race, and ethnicity mobilise for resources such as shelter, basic infrastructure, and services and how institutional arrangements facilitate or frustrate provision and access to such vital urban resources. Professor Miraftab is the author of a number of seminal papers on insurgency, a concept that she explores in her lecture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.