Yaffa Truelove
Associate Professor of Geography • Urban and Feminist Political Ecology of Water • India • Southern Urbanism • Urban Infrastructure • Water Governance • Nature-Society Relations • Faculty of International Affairs • PhD University of Cambridge, 2015
Human Geography • Environment-Society

Research Interests

At the nexus of urban geography and human-environment relations, my research primarily examines the connections between urban waterscapes and socio-political processes in cities of the global South. In particular, I examine water and its infrastructures as a lens for analyzing social and material relations in cities as well as differing regimes and institutions of everyday urban governance. My prior research has predominately focused on Indian cities, contributing to theorizations of urban and feminist political ecologies, Southern and comparative urbanism, and 鈥渁ctually existing鈥 modalities of urban water governance in postcolonial cities.听 Recent work also includes a collaborative intra-urban comparison of precarious infrastructures in the cities of Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town as well as a project examining infrastructural violence and the everyday politics of water disruption in India鈥檚 capital city, Delhi.听


Recent Courses Taught

  • Spring 2024听 GEOG 5100听 Special Topics in Geography
  • Fall 2023听 GEOG 1972听 Environment-Society Geography
  • Fall 2021听 GEOG 1972听 Environment-Society Geography
  • Fall 2020听 GEOG 3622 /听IAFS 3670听 Cities of the Global South
  • Fall 2020听 IAFS 4500听 The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology
  • Fall 2019听听GEOG 3622 /听IAFS 3670听Cities of the Global South
  • Fall 2019听听滨础贵厂听4500听 The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology
  • Spring 2019听听骋贰翱骋听3422听 Political Ecology
  • Spring 2019听听GEOG听3622 / IAFS 3670听 Cities of the Global South
  • Fall 2018听听滨础贵厂听4500听 The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology