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Faranak Miraftab

Tue, Oct 28 1:15pm

New York, Lecture, LiPS (Lectures in Planning Series)

A Dying Empire, Planning Education, and Promise of Humane Urbanism
Recognizing the darkness of this historical moment and corporatized universities, I stress the potential for imagining and building a new world, a new pedagogy, a new planning. Building on prior research and reflection on my collaborative work, I make a case for a relational approach in teaching and research to overcome the dominant “American exceptionalism” and forknowledge co-production to move beyond the walls of academia. Learning from the insurgent work of the grassroots with women at their center, may guide us to anticolonial planning that is not centered on profit but on life—a humane urbanism.

Faranak Miraftab is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning with joint appointments in Women and Gender Studies and Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her established transnational feminist urban scholarship focuses on urbanization, citizenship, and insurgent practices of marginalized people based on class, race, and gender in many areas of the world—United States, Middle East, Southern Africa, and Latin America. Her most recent book, Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking, received the American Sociological Association’s Global & Transnational Sociology Award and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Davidoff book award, and it was a C. Wright Mills book award finalist by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Miraftab is currently working on a collaborative project on co-production of knowledge by academics and urban movements, on grassroots practices of radical care and how they produce hope and build alternative humane urbanisms as alternatives to the dominant profit-centered bully urbanism.

_The Lecture in Planning Series (LiPS) is co-organized by the MSUP Program and second-year PhD students in Urban Planning: Light refreshments will be served. This event is open to Columbia University affiliates with a valid university ID. Any questions on the events can be directed Rossella Asja Lucrezia Ferro, rf2930@columbia.edu and Daniela Perleche Ugas, dp3167@columbia.edu.

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