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
- Fall 2020听 GEOG 3622 /听IAFS 3670听Cities of the Global South
- Fall 2020听听IAFS 4500听听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听听The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology
- Spring 2018听听滨础贵厂听4500听听The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology听
- Fall 2017听听滨础贵厂听4500听听The Post Cold War World: Global Political Ecology听听
Selected Publications
Truelove, Y.听(Forthcoming). Who is the state? Infrastructural power and everyday water politics in Delhi.听Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
Truelove, Y.听(2019). Gray zones: The Everyday Practices and Governance of Water Beyond the Network,鈥澨�Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Truelove, Y.听(2019). Rethinking Water Insecurity, Inequality and Infrastructure through an Embodied Urban Political Ecology鈥澨�Wiley Interdisciplinary Review on Water,听6 (3).听
Lawhon, M. and听Truelove, Y.听(2019). Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways, and possibilities for a more global urban studies.听Urban Studies.听DOI 10.1177/0042098019829412.
Truelove, Y.听(2018).听Negotiating States of Water: Producing Illegibility, Bureaucratic Arbitrariness, and Distributive Injustices in Delhi.听Environment and Planning D: Society & Space,听36(5): 949-967
McFarlane, C., Silver, J., and听Truelove, Y.听(2017) Cities within cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town.听Urban Geography,听38(9), 1393-1417.
Truelove, Y.听(2016) Incongruent Waterworlds: Situating the everyday practices and power of waterin Delhi.听South Asian Multidisciplinary Academic Journal,听14.
Truelove, Y.听(2011) (Re-)Conceptualizing water inequality in Delhi, India through a feminist political ecology framework.听Geoforum, 42(2): 143-152.
Truelove, Y.听and Mawdsley, E.听(2011) Discourses of citizenship and criminality in clean, green Delhi. In听A Companion to the Anthropology of India. (Ed.) Clark-Deces, Isabelle. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden.
Silvey, R., Olson, B., and听Truelove, Y.听(2006) 鈥淢igration and (im)mobility鈥� in听Handbook of Political Geography, Robinson, J.D., Low, M. and Cox, K (eds.). Sage: London.