Yaffa Truelove
Biographic Data
| ID | 282790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaffa Truelove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaffa |
| FAMILY NAME | Truelove |
| SIGNATURE | TRUELOVE Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9295-122X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 458 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Gendering Infrastructure: An Introduction
In their introduction to this collection, Yaffa Truelove and Sneha Annavarapu contend that gender – as a relational and intersectional concept, as a category of self-identification and as lived experience – fundamentally shapes infrastructure and is, in turn, shaped by it
Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence
Drawing from deep longitudinal and ethnographic work, this article interrogates a set of key relationships between bodies, gender and infrastructure in the context of understanding cities such as Bharatpur and Dhangadhi in Nepal as well as Delhi, India. This article seeks to make two contributions. First, utilizing feminist political geography approaches, we examine bodies as infrastructure, referring to how the social and material work of the bo…
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi's unauthorized colonies
This paper takes an embodied approach to the lived experiences and everyday politics of liminal neighborhoods and infrastructures in Delhi's unauthorized colonies, which lack official entitlements to networked infrastructures such as water and sewerage. Bringing a feminist political ecology lens to critical infrastructure studies, I show how gendered social relations, subjectivities, and the unequal experience of urban liminality are tied to acce…
Making India's cleanest city: Sanitation, intersectionality, and infrastructural violence
Inaugurated in 2014, India's Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) intends to eradicate open defecation in urban and rural areas by 2019. In cities, the scheme ranks municipalities for achieving open defecation-free status and other measures of cleanliness. In 2017, Indore was first nationally recognized with the national Cleanest City award. In the weeks before the city was evaluated, it sponsored a number of activities that demolished housing and sanitat…
Who is the state? Infrastructural power and everyday water governance in Delhi
In Indian cities, a variety of state and non-state political actors and institutions play a role in regulating infrastructures in the everyday. Anthropological approaches to the everyday state have demonstrated how residents experience and discursively construct the state in relation to key services and amenities. However, less is known and theorized regarding how city-dwellers and public authorities understand and experience political space and …
Rethinking urban environmental and infrastructural governance in the everyday: Perspectives from and of the global South
In the global South, urban infrastructures and environments are marked by significant heterogeneity and the presence of multiple overlapping systems, configurations and actor networks that keep the city working – water flows, electricity is available, and waste is collected. This occurs in the face of what has been traditionally characterized as failed or incomplete infrastructures and the presence of governance practices that often deviate from …
Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies
Scholarship engaging with (northern) urban theory from the south has troubled the core of urban studies. At this critical juncture, we argue that it is important to clarify core propositions and call attention to points of convergence and dissonance amongst advocates of ‘the southern urban critique’. We briefly review foundational arguments for this scholarly community, then outline three distinct iterations of the source of this critique: the so…
Rethinking water insecurity, inequality and infrastructure through an embodied urban political ecology
In recent years, emerging scholarship has advanced embodied approaches to urban water in/security, inequality and infrastructure. This new literature is broadly informed by political ecology studies of water, which critique depoliticized approaches to water scarcity, insecurity and inequality and give attention to the socially differentiated experiences of the urban waterscape. Recent interventions to bring feminist and embodied approaches to wat…
Gray Zones: The Everyday Practices and Governance of Water beyond the Network
In Delhi, India, the centralized water supply is highly fractured and sporadic, reaching less than half of residents on an everyday basis. As a result, urbanites across social groups coproduce water infrastructure through reliance on a host of alternate sources, technologies, and political actors. Such diverse delivery configurations and plural logics do not fit the conventional dualistic framing of urban water governance as either state or priva…
Negotiating states of water: Producing illegibility, bureaucratic arbitrariness, and distributive injustices in Delhi
State quantifications of Delhi's water supply proclaim some of the highest levels of access in urban South Asia. However, accompanying such representations are a number of discrepancies and ambiguities, suggesting an appearance of legibility is produced in the absence of data and key calculations. This paper examines the co-production of both knowledge and ignorance with regard to the city's water, showing how their entanglement serves to powerfu…
Cities within cities: Intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town
Comparison is now taken as vital to the constitution of knowledge about cities and urbanism. However, debate on comparative urbanism has been far more attentive to the merits of comparisons between cities than it has been to the potential and challenges of comparisons within cities—to what we call “Intra-Urban Comparison” (IUC). We argue that a focus on the diverse forms of urbanism located within cities may generate critical knowledge for both i…
Incongruent Waterworlds: Situating the Everyday Practices and Power of Water in Delhi
In 2011, the “Swach Delhi Swasth Delhi” (Clean Delhi Healthy Delhi) campaign designated more than 20 settlements in the capital city to receive water and/or sanitation improvements. Tracing the water initiative in Delhi’s Rampur Camp, this paper employs a situated approach to the urban political ecology of water in order to tease apart the variegated governance and lived experiences of its flows. Rather than the conventional reading of the state …
(Re-)Conceptualizing water inequality in Delhi, India through a feminist political ecology framework
Learning about Difference, Learning with Others, Learning to Transgress
Emerging work in intergroup contact has vitalized a focus on processes affecting the impact of interventions on outcomes. We theorized that intergroup learning—learning about other groups, educating others about one's own groups, intention to bridge intergroup differences, and reflecting on one's own group—mediates the effect of a combined enlightenment‐encounter curricular intervention on assessments of importance and confidence in taking action…
(Re-)Conceptualizing water inequality in Delhi, India through a feminist political ecology framework
Cities within cities: Intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town
Comparison is now taken as vital to the constitution of knowledge about cities and urbanism. However, debate on comparative urbanism has been far more attentive to the merits of comparisons between cities than it has been to the potential and challenges of comparisons within cities—to what we call “Intra-Urban Comparison” (IUC). We argue that a focus on the diverse forms of urbanism located within cities may generate critical knowledge for both i…
Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies
Scholarship engaging with (northern) urban theory from the south has troubled the core of urban studies. At this critical juncture, we argue that it is important to clarify core propositions and call attention to points of convergence and dissonance amongst advocates of ‘the southern urban critique’. We briefly review foundational arguments for this scholarly community, then outline three distinct iterations of the source of this critique: the so…
Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence
Drawing from deep longitudinal and ethnographic work, this article interrogates a set of key relationships between bodies, gender and infrastructure in the context of understanding cities such as Bharatpur and Dhangadhi in Nepal as well as Delhi, India. This article seeks to make two contributions. First, utilizing feminist political geography approaches, we examine bodies as infrastructure, referring to how the social and material work of the bo…
Gray Zones: The Everyday Practices and Governance of Water beyond the Network
In Delhi, India, the centralized water supply is highly fractured and sporadic, reaching less than half of residents on an everyday basis. As a result, urbanites across social groups coproduce water infrastructure through reliance on a host of alternate sources, technologies, and political actors. Such diverse delivery configurations and plural logics do not fit the conventional dualistic framing of urban water governance as either state or priva…
Rethinking urban environmental and infrastructural governance in the everyday: Perspectives from and of the global South
In the global South, urban infrastructures and environments are marked by significant heterogeneity and the presence of multiple overlapping systems, configurations and actor networks that keep the city working – water flows, electricity is available, and waste is collected. This occurs in the face of what has been traditionally characterized as failed or incomplete infrastructures and the presence of governance practices that often deviate from …
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi's unauthorized colonies
This paper takes an embodied approach to the lived experiences and everyday politics of liminal neighborhoods and infrastructures in Delhi's unauthorized colonies, which lack official entitlements to networked infrastructures such as water and sewerage. Bringing a feminist political ecology lens to critical infrastructure studies, I show how gendered social relations, subjectivities, and the unequal experience of urban liminality are tied to acce…
Negotiating states of water: Producing illegibility, bureaucratic arbitrariness, and distributive injustices in Delhi
State quantifications of Delhi's water supply proclaim some of the highest levels of access in urban South Asia. However, accompanying such representations are a number of discrepancies and ambiguities, suggesting an appearance of legibility is produced in the absence of data and key calculations. This paper examines the co-production of both knowledge and ignorance with regard to the city's water, showing how their entanglement serves to powerfu…
Making India's cleanest city: Sanitation, intersectionality, and infrastructural violence
Inaugurated in 2014, India's Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) intends to eradicate open defecation in urban and rural areas by 2019. In cities, the scheme ranks municipalities for achieving open defecation-free status and other measures of cleanliness. In 2017, Indore was first nationally recognized with the national Cleanest City award. In the weeks before the city was evaluated, it sponsored a number of activities that demolished housing and sanitat…
Who is the state? Infrastructural power and everyday water governance in Delhi
In Indian cities, a variety of state and non-state political actors and institutions play a role in regulating infrastructures in the everyday. Anthropological approaches to the everyday state have demonstrated how residents experience and discursively construct the state in relation to key services and amenities. However, less is known and theorized regarding how city-dwellers and public authorities understand and experience political space and …
Learning about Difference, Learning with Others, Learning to Transgress
Emerging work in intergroup contact has vitalized a focus on processes affecting the impact of interventions on outcomes. We theorized that intergroup learning—learning about other groups, educating others about one's own groups, intention to bridge intergroup differences, and reflecting on one's own group—mediates the effect of a combined enlightenment‐encounter curricular intervention on assessments of importance and confidence in taking action…
Incongruent Waterworlds: Situating the Everyday Practices and Power of Water in Delhi
In 2011, the “Swach Delhi Swasth Delhi” (Clean Delhi Healthy Delhi) campaign designated more than 20 settlements in the capital city to receive water and/or sanitation improvements. Tracing the water initiative in Delhi’s Rampur Camp, this paper employs a situated approach to the urban political ecology of water in order to tease apart the variegated governance and lived experiences of its flows. Rather than the conventional reading of the state …
Learning about Difference, Learning with Others, Learning to Transgress
Emerging work in intergroup contact has vitalized a focus on processes affecting the impact of interventions on outcomes. We theorized that intergroup learning—learning about other groups, educating others about one's own groups, intention to bridge intergroup differences, and reflecting on one's own group—mediates the effect of a combined enlightenment‐encounter curricular intervention on assessments of importance and confidence in taking action…
(Re-)Conceptualizing water inequality in Delhi, India through a feminist political ecology framework
Cities within cities: Intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town
Comparison is now taken as vital to the constitution of knowledge about cities and urbanism. However, debate on comparative urbanism has been far more attentive to the merits of comparisons between cities than it has been to the potential and challenges of comparisons within cities—to what we call “Intra-Urban Comparison” (IUC). We argue that a focus on the diverse forms of urbanism located within cities may generate critical knowledge for both i…
Incongruent Waterworlds: Situating the Everyday Practices and Power of Water in Delhi
In 2011, the “Swach Delhi Swasth Delhi” (Clean Delhi Healthy Delhi) campaign designated more than 20 settlements in the capital city to receive water and/or sanitation improvements. Tracing the water initiative in Delhi’s Rampur Camp, this paper employs a situated approach to the urban political ecology of water in order to tease apart the variegated governance and lived experiences of its flows. Rather than the conventional reading of the state …
Negotiating states of water: Producing illegibility, bureaucratic arbitrariness, and distributive injustices in Delhi
State quantifications of Delhi's water supply proclaim some of the highest levels of access in urban South Asia. However, accompanying such representations are a number of discrepancies and ambiguities, suggesting an appearance of legibility is produced in the absence of data and key calculations. This paper examines the co-production of both knowledge and ignorance with regard to the city's water, showing how their entanglement serves to powerfu…
Rethinking water insecurity, inequality and infrastructure through an embodied urban political ecology
In recent years, emerging scholarship has advanced embodied approaches to urban water in/security, inequality and infrastructure. This new literature is broadly informed by political ecology studies of water, which critique depoliticized approaches to water scarcity, insecurity and inequality and give attention to the socially differentiated experiences of the urban waterscape. Recent interventions to bring feminist and embodied approaches to wat…
Gray Zones: The Everyday Practices and Governance of Water beyond the Network
In Delhi, India, the centralized water supply is highly fractured and sporadic, reaching less than half of residents on an everyday basis. As a result, urbanites across social groups coproduce water infrastructure through reliance on a host of alternate sources, technologies, and political actors. Such diverse delivery configurations and plural logics do not fit the conventional dualistic framing of urban water governance as either state or priva…
Who is the state? Infrastructural power and everyday water governance in Delhi
In Indian cities, a variety of state and non-state political actors and institutions play a role in regulating infrastructures in the everyday. Anthropological approaches to the everyday state have demonstrated how residents experience and discursively construct the state in relation to key services and amenities. However, less is known and theorized regarding how city-dwellers and public authorities understand and experience political space and …
Rethinking urban environmental and infrastructural governance in the everyday: Perspectives from and of the global South
In the global South, urban infrastructures and environments are marked by significant heterogeneity and the presence of multiple overlapping systems, configurations and actor networks that keep the city working – water flows, electricity is available, and waste is collected. This occurs in the face of what has been traditionally characterized as failed or incomplete infrastructures and the presence of governance practices that often deviate from …
Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies
Scholarship engaging with (northern) urban theory from the south has troubled the core of urban studies. At this critical juncture, we argue that it is important to clarify core propositions and call attention to points of convergence and dissonance amongst advocates of ‘the southern urban critique’. We briefly review foundational arguments for this scholarly community, then outline three distinct iterations of the source of this critique: the so…
Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi's unauthorized colonies
This paper takes an embodied approach to the lived experiences and everyday politics of liminal neighborhoods and infrastructures in Delhi's unauthorized colonies, which lack official entitlements to networked infrastructures such as water and sewerage. Bringing a feminist political ecology lens to critical infrastructure studies, I show how gendered social relations, subjectivities, and the unequal experience of urban liminality are tied to acce…
Making India's cleanest city: Sanitation, intersectionality, and infrastructural violence
Inaugurated in 2014, India's Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) intends to eradicate open defecation in urban and rural areas by 2019. In cities, the scheme ranks municipalities for achieving open defecation-free status and other measures of cleanliness. In 2017, Indore was first nationally recognized with the national Cleanest City award. In the weeks before the city was evaluated, it sponsored a number of activities that demolished housing and sanitat…
Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence
Drawing from deep longitudinal and ethnographic work, this article interrogates a set of key relationships between bodies, gender and infrastructure in the context of understanding cities such as Bharatpur and Dhangadhi in Nepal as well as Delhi, India. This article seeks to make two contributions. First, utilizing feminist political geography approaches, we examine bodies as infrastructure, referring to how the social and material work of the bo…
Gendering Infrastructure: An Introduction
In their introduction to this collection, Yaffa Truelove and Sneha Annavarapu contend that gender – as a relational and intersectional concept, as a category of self-identification and as lived experience – fundamentally shapes infrastructure and is, in turn, shaped by it
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works)