Yaffa听Truelove
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Faculty of International Affairs
- Research: Urban and Feminist Political Ecology of Water; India; Southern Urbanism; Urban Infrastructure; Water Governance; Nature-Society Relations
- Ph.D. from 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 2026听 GEOG 1972听 Sustainable Futures, Environment and Society
- Spring 2026听 GEOG 3622听 Cities of the Global South
- Fall 2025听 GEOG 5100听 Special Topics in Geography: Politics of Water
- Spring 2025听 GEOG 3622听 Cities of the Global South
- Spring 2024听 GEOG 5100听 Special Topics in Geography: Politics of Water
- 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
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