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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Below are my journal publications in English. My work is also translated and reprinted in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish and Farsi.

Keynote Address at 2016 World Congress of Planning Schools

"Insurgency, Planning, and the Prospect of Humane Urbanism" (PDF) Keynote delivered at the opening of the World Congress of Planning Schools. "Global Crisis, Planning and Challenges to Spatial Justice." July 3-7 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

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  • Miraftab, F., & Huq, E (2024). Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Vol. 42(2), Pp. 234-253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241230179.

 

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  • Razavi, N. S., Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, G., Basu, S., Datta, A., de Souza, K., Tsz Ting Ip, P., Koleth, E., Marcus, J., Miraftab, F., Mullings, B., Nmormah, S., Odunola, B., Pardo Burgoa, S. & Peake, L. (2023). Everyday urbanisms in the pandemic city: a feminist comparative study of the gendered experiences of Covid-19 in Southern cities. Social and Cultural Geography. Vol.24:3-4, Pp. 582-599. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2022.2104355.  

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  • Miraftab, F. (2022). Southern Theories Centre on Practices and Experiences of Subordinate Groups Wherever They Are. In Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon (eds.) TheoriSE: Debating the Southeastern Turn in Urban Theories, Cape Town, African Centre for Cities. Pp. 102-108. (PDF).​​

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  • Miraftab, F. (2022). Insurgent Practices of Hope and Care for Humane Urbanism. In Rocco, R., Newton, C. (eds.). A Manifesto for the Just City. Volume 2. Delft: TU Delft Open. Pp. 36-39. (PDF). 

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  • Miraftab, F. (2021). Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and its Invisible Work in Urban Revitalization. A Feminist Urban Theory for our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban edited by Linda Peake et al. (Antipode Book Series). London: Wiley and sons. Pp. 138-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119789161.ch6.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2021). Spaces of Social Reproduction and Emergent Change in Small Town. In Emergent Spaces: Change and Innovation in Small Urban Spaces edited by Petra Kuppinge. Urban Anthropology Book Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 47-61.

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  • Huq, E & Miraftab, F. (2020). “We are All Refugees”: Camps and Informal Settlements as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements. Planning Theory & Practice, 21(3), Pp. 351-370.  DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2020.1776376

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  • Miraftab, F. (2020). Insurgency and Juxtacity in the Age of Urban Divides. Urban Forum 31(3), Pp. 433-441. Springer Netherlands. DOI: 10.1007/s12132-020-09401-9​

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  • Miraftab, F. (2018). Insurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s). In Michael Gunder, Ali Madanipour, Vanessa Watson (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory. Pp. 276-288. (PDF).

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  • Ay, D. and Miraftab, F. (2016). Invented Spaces of Activism: Gezi Park and Performative Practices of Citizenship. In Daniel Hammett and Jean Grugel (eds.) The Handbook of International Development. Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 555-574. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-42724-3_31.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2015). Crisis of Capital Accumulation and Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction: A Conceptual Note. In Anne Coles, Leslie Gray and Janet Momsen (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development. London: Routledge. Pp. 446-451.

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  • Wilson, D. and Miraftab, F. (2015). New Inequalities in America’s Rust Belt. In Miraftab, F., Wilson, D. and Salo, K. (eds.) Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World. New York, London: Routledge. Pp. 28-48.

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  • Wilson, D., Miraftab F., and Salo, K. (2015). Introduction. In Miraftab, F., Wilson, D. and Salo, K. (eds.) Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World. New York, London: Routledge. Pp. 1-12.​

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  • Miraftab, F. (2014). Displacement: Framing the Global Relationally. In Framing the Global: Entry Points for the Search. Hilary Kahn (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp. 37-50.

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  • Miraftab, F.  (2012). Small-Town Transnationalism: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Immigration to the Heartland. In Stefan Kratke, Kathrin Wildner and Stephan Lanz (ed.) The Transnationalism and Urbanism. London, New York: Routledge. Pp. 220-231.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2012). Right to the City and the Quiet Appropriations in the Heartland. In Remaking Urban Citizenship: Organizations, Institutions, and the Right to the City, M. P. Smith and M. McQuarrie, eds. London, UK and New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Pp. 191-202.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2011). Beyond Formal Politics of Planning. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol. 35(4), Pp. 860-862.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2010). Contradictions in the Gender-Poverty Nexus: Reflections on the Privatisation of Social Reproduction and Urban Informality in South African Townships. In Silvia Chant (ed.) The International Handbook on Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research and Policy. Edward Elgar Publishers. Pp. 644-648.​

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  • Diaz McConnell, E. and Miraftab, F. (2009). Sundown Town to ‘Mexican Town’:  Newcomers, Old Timers, and Housing in Small Town America. Rural Sociology 74 (4): 605-629. DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2009.tb00706.x.

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  • Miraftab, F. and Diaz McConnell, E. (2008). Multiculturalizing Rural Towns: Insights for Inclusive Planning. International Planning Studies 13(4): 343-360. DOI: 10.1080/13563470802518982.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2008). Decentralization and Entrepreneurial Planning. in Victoria Beard, Faranak Miraftab and Chris Silver (eds.) Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South. New York: Routledge. (Pp 21-35). DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01216_3.x.

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  • Miraftab, F. ,Beard, V., and Silver, C. (2008). Introduction: Situating Contested Notions of Decentralized Planning in the Global South. In Victoria Beard, Faranak Miraftab and Chris Silver (eds.) Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South.  New York: Routledge. Pp 1-18. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01216_3.x.

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  • Silver, C., Miraftab, F. and Beard, V. (2008). Conclusion: Decentralized Planning and the Ways Ahead. In Victoria Beard, Faranak Miraftab and Chris Silver (eds.) Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South.  New York: Routledge. Pp 216-224. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01216_3.x.​

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  • Miraftab, F. (2007). Governing Post-apartheid Spatiality: Implementing City Improvement Districts in Cape Town. Antipode: Radical Journal of Geography 39(4): 602-626. DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.31.4.453.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2006). 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. Pp. 174-190.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2006). Feminist Praxis, Citizenship and Informal Politics: Reflections on South Africa’s Anti-Eviction Campaign. International Feminist Journal of Politics vol. 8(2): 194-218. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616740600612830

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  • Miraftab, F. (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. (PDF). 

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  • Miraftab, F., Wills, S. (2005). 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X05282182.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2005). Making Neoliberal Governance: The Disempowering Work of Empowerment. International Planning Studies 9(4): 239-259. DOI: 10.1080/13563470500050130.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2004). 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. DOI: 10.1080/0966369042000307988.

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  • Miraftab, F. (2004). Invented and Invited Spaces of Participation: Neoliberal Citizenship and Feminists’ Expanded Notion of Politics. Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies. (PDF). 

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  • Miraftab, F. (2001). Risks and Opportunities in Gender Gaps to Access Shelter: A Platform for Intervention. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 15(1): 143-160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011176002208. 

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  • Miraftab, F. (2000). Sheltering Refugees: The Housing Experience of Refugees in the Metropolitan Vancouver, Canada. Canadian Journal of Urban Research. Vol. 9(1): 42-63.

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  • Miraftab, F. (1999). Sustainability in Environmental Design: Case Studies from the Vernacular Tradition in Iran. Australian Planner Vol. 36 (4). Pp. 210-215. DOI: 10.1080/07293682.1999.9665762.

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  • Miraftab, F. (1998). Complexities of the Margin: Housing Decisions of Female Householders in Mexico. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Vol. 16. Pp. 289-310. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/d160289.

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  • Miraftab, F. (1996). 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). Pp. 303-322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00074.

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  • Miraftab, F.  (1996). 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.

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  • Miraftab, F. (1993). 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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