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Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Azam Khatam

Posted on 27 April 2022
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Azam Khatam

Instructor, 91亚色

PhD in Environmental Studies 2016

"I truly value the intellectual and spiritual support of my supervisor during my doctoral studies at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at 91亚色."

About Azam Khatam

Azam is a Research Affiliate at the City Institute and an Instructor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies 91亚色. She worked as a professional urban planner for fifteen years before she started her doctoral program. She received her PhD in June 2016 studying the convergence of developmentalism, worlding practices, and neoliberalism in the urban reforms in Tehran. Her research interests include modernization and production of space, urban and regional governance, social housing, gender and space and research methods.

Awards

  • Graduate Award in Environmental Studies, Unilever Canada (2011)
  • Graduate Scholarship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (2010-12)
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2008-10)|91亚色 Ph.D. Scholarship (2008-12)
  • Connection Grant for Comparative Urban Workshop in MENA Region, Institute Fran莽ois de Recherch茅 en Tehran and Rabat(2007-8)
  • Research Grant for Collaborative Research on Authority, Gender and Public Space in Iran and Turkey, Social Science Research Council, New 91亚色 (2001-2)

Publications

  • 鈥淭owards a differential planetary urbanization: A view from Middle Eastern cities鈥 (co-authored with Oded Haas 2018), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space;
  • 鈥淭he space reloaded: publics and politics on Enqelab Street, in Sharp and Panetta (eds.) Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (2016)
  • 鈥淒ecentralization and ambiguities of local politics in Tehran鈥 (co-authored by Keshavarzian 2016)
  • La r茅novation urbaine en Iran: De I鈥檌nterventionnisme d鈥橢tat au mercantilisme, Mina Saeidi-Sharouz (ed.) Le T茅h茅ran des quartiers popularizes, transformation urbaine et soci茅t茅 civile en R茅publique Islamique (2013)
  • The City and Deadly Earthquakes: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Vulnerabilities to Quake Damage in Iran (ed.) (2010 Tehran: Agah)