Yaffa Truelove
Assistant 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 “actually existing” modalities of urban water governance in postcolonial cities.  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’s capital city, Delhi. 


Recent Courses Taught

  • Spring 2024  GEOG 5100  Special Topics in Geography
  • Fall 2023  GEOG 1972  Environment-Society Geography
  • Fall 2021  GEOG 1972  Environment-Society Geography
  • Fall 2020  GEOG 3622 / IAFS 3670  Cities of the Global South
  • Fall 2020  IAFS 4500  The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology
  • Fall 2019  GEOG 3622 / IAFS 3670 Cities of the Global South
  • Fall 2019  IAFS 4500  The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology
  • Spring 2019  GEOG 3422  Political Ecology
  • Spring 2019  GEOG 3622 / IAFS 3670  Cities of the Global South
  • Fall 2018  IAFS 4500  The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology