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 “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 2025 GEOG 3622 Cities of the Global South
- 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