Yaffa Truelove

Truelove and Fluri awarded by SPARC to Investigate Gender, Caste, and Water Inequities in North Indian Cities

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Truelove and Fluri awarded by SPARC to Investigate Gender, Caste, and Water Inequities in North Indian Cities Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/19/2023 - 15:59

The fragmented water supply in Shimla, India. Photo Credit: Naomi Hazarika

Assistant Professor Yaffa Truelove and Professor Jennifer Fluri have been awarded a Government of India SPARC grant in collaboration with Dr. Anu Sabhlok and Dr. Ritajyoti Bandopadhyay at the Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER) Mohali. This grant will fund a two-year research project titled “Assembly the City: Gender and Utility Infrastructures in Northern India.” Unavailable, unaffordable, and unreliable water infrastructure remains a problem across the globe that has become exacerbated and more visible with recent climate events. Such water crises do not simply present moments of infrastructural breakdown, disconnection, and/or water scarcity in the context of a warming climate, but also reveal simultaneous crises of water inequity and social inequality. This project will investigate the intersecting gender, caste, and class inequities associated with water infrastructure in medium-sized cities in North India, including Shimla and Chandigarh. In India, more than 100 million people live in primarily medium-sized cities that are predicted to go "waterless" (experiencing periodic episodes of piped water running out) over the next decade. Critically, gender, caste, and class identities are associated with unequal access to water infrastructure. Furthermore, significant populations of the urban poor and marginalized groups on the peripheries of cities have been denied a legal right to piped water, and must piece together insufficient and fragmented water supplies on an everyday basis. As both Shimla and Chandigarh have “smart city” missions in their urban planning aimed to improve the functioning of water and sewerage, this research will investigate the lived experiences of these new modalities of water governance and their associated technologies and infrastructure in the city, examining their uneven impacts on marginalized gender, caste, and class groups. This research builds on Dr. Yaffa Truelove’s and Dr. Sabhlok’s previous research in Shimla India on gendered infrastructural violence and embodied experiences of water inequality, and brings in the expertise of Dr. Jennifer Fluri on gender, international development, and South Asia, as well as Dr. Ritajyoti Bandopadhyay’s expertise on infrastructure, informality and caste inequities.

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Faculty News Spring 2021

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Faculty News Spring 2021 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/03/2021 - 17:20

Waleed Abdalati testified to Congress for the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

Waleed Abdalati

On April 15, 2021, Professor Abdalati testified in a hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. The hearing was titled “Making the Case for Climate Action: The Growing Risks and Costs of Inaction.”

While Dr. Abdalati spoke to the underlying physical mechanisms of climate change, their current expressions, and future implications, other witnesses included the city manager for Tybee Island in Coastal Georgia, who talked about the challenges they face in confronting sea level rise; a lawyer from Mississippi, who spoke to the ethnic and racial inequities associated with climate change; and an economist, who spoke to the social costs of climate change.

Dr. Abdalati remarked, "hearing these different perspectives on climate change really drove home the geographic dimensions of climate change in a very powerful way, as well as the critical role that geography serves in meeting these challenges.”

Also see information about the hearing and Dr. Abdalati's testimony

Holly Barnard

Holly Barnard Awarded Boulder Faculty Excellence in Leadership & Service Award for 2020-2021

Chosen from amongst many excellent nominees, Professor Holly Barnard was selected as a recipient of the BFA Faculty Excellence in Leadership and Service Award this year.

She was jointly nominated by the Department of Geography and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) for her leadership in advancing justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in both units, across the ��Ƶ campus, and beyond. In addition, Professor Barnard has also taken on numerous leadership roles in the discipline, through the American Geophysical Union and through her past service as Lead Program Manager for the Hydrological Sciences Program at NSF.

Additionally, Dr. Barnard was also recently honored for her efforts to promote diversity by the Arts & Sciences Council of the College of A&S.

Emily Yeh Winner of the 2020-2021 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award

Emily Yeh

Dr. Yeh was chosen as a winner of the Graduate School's 2020-2021 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. Her nomination dossier was full of praise for providing help and encouragement to her advisees. She is well known for giving much of her time, energy, and intellect to support graduate students and the mission of graduate education.

Yaffa Truelove

Yaffa Truelove Wins Best Urban Studies Article 2020

The Urban Studies Best Article is awarded by the editors to the authors of the most innovative and agenda-setting article published in a given year. Eleven articles were shortlisted by the editors from those published in print copy in 2020. Urban Studies Journal is an international journal for research in urban and regional studies.

Dr. Truelove's article, Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies, has been voted by the editors as the Urban Studies Best Article for 2020. In agreement with the publisher, SAGE, they will be allowing Open Access to the article on the journal’s website.

Katherine Lininger

Professor Katherine Lininger was part of a team given a ��Ƶ Outreach Award for the outreach proposal, “��Ƶ Restoration Ecology Experimental Learning Program”, by the ��Ƶ Boulder Outreach Awards Committee. The effort was led by Tim Seastedt, professor emeritus of INSTAAR and EBIO, and also included Professor Sharon Collinge from the Department of Environmental Studies. The project builds on three years of work, partnering with the non-profit Wildlands Restoration Volunteers (WRV). WRV uses service-learning and education programs to help local youth build relationships with nature. Over 70% of the youth engaged in the program come from low-income, minority, or at risk populations. As a result, underserved youth will have access to the many benefits of a connection to nature and will be able to explore potential careers in environmental sciences and see their own capacity to make a positive impact.

Their team was selected from amongst a very competitive pool of 40 applications.

Morteza Karimzadeh

Morteza Karimzadeh awarded RIO Seed Grant

Morteza Karimzadeh and Terra McKinnish were awarded the ��Ƶ RIO Seed Grant for the project entitled “Recovering from a Pandemic: Unraveling Neighborhood Geographic Disparities in Consumer and Business Behavior in 2021”.

They will use foot-traffic data to identify business patrons’ residence neighborhoods and the level of recovery in consumption by residents living in those neighborhoods as characterized by different sociodemographic, political and economic conditions.

The 2021 Research & Innovation Seed Grant program resulted in 16 new grants with approximately $700,000 being awarded to ��Ƶ Boulder faculty across disciplines, with each grant providing up to $50,000 in funding.

Heide Bruckner

MeatOut Day: Heide Bruckner Interviewed on Colorado Public Radio

In February, word started to get out that Gov. Jared Polis has proclaimed the 20th as MeatOut Day. The day, which was started in 1985 by the Farm Animals Rights Movement, is meant to encourage non-vegetarians to consider moving toward a plant-based diet.

Heide Bruckner's research involves the intersections of food and identity. “Meat has always been politicized and meat-eating tied to a lot of perceptions of American identity and masculinity, especially here in the American West,” she said.

Dr. Bruckner favors the idea of a MeatOut Day, as a way to introduce people to the idea that they can reduce the amount of meat in their diet without becoming a full vegetarian.

“There is a large area in between that all-or-nothing approach that we really should explore,” she said. “Realistically, one day isn’t going to radically shift perception, change behaviors or reduce meat consumption. But I do believe it can provide an opening for some to consider the role that meat plays in their diet.”

The governor’s office notes that Polis issues numerous proclamations each year celebrating the state’s agricultural sector, including Colorado Ag Day, Farm Bureau Day, and Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Day. But that has not stopped the criticism. After word of the proclamation got out, several state Senators spoke out against MeatOut Day on the chamber floor.

John O'Loughlin: Ukrainian Resident’s Divided Views on the Donbas Conflict

John O’Loughlin

Two new articles from The Washington Post and Global Voices both feature research conducted by Professor John O’Loughlin of Geography and IBS's Program on International Development and his colleagues.

On February 12, 2015 the Minsk II accords left the Donbas region territorially divided with the Ukrainian government controlling the western side and two separatist entities controlling the eastern side. O’Loughlin and his research team conducted a survey on both sides and they found drastically different opinions regarding the war in Donbas.

On the eastern side, they found trust in the authorities to be higher among residents; however, on the western side, they found trust in the authorities to be much lower among residents. Their survey also shows that residents disagree on the future status of Donbas as an autonomous region.

The team also made a research presentation on the results at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Eurasian and Russian Studies in February; the video of the talk is available on Youtube.

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Yaffa Truelove Wins Best Urban Studies Journal Article 2020

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Yaffa Truelove Wins Best Urban Studies Journal Article 2020 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/03/2021 - 11:12

The Urban Studies Best Article is awarded by the editors to the authors of what they consider to be the most innovative and agenda-setting article published in a given year. Eleven articles were shortlisted by the editors from those published in print copy in 2020. Urban Studies Journal is an international journal for research in urban and regional studies.

Yaffa Truelove's article, Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies, has been voted by the Editors as the Urban Studies Best Article for 2020. In agreement with the publisher, SAGE, they will be allowing Open Access to the article on the Journal’s website.

They will also shortly be placing an announcement in the Journal and on the website.

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2017 Geography Fall Newsletter Published

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2017 Geography Fall Newsletter Published Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/18/2017 - 13:54

The 2017 Geography Fall Newsletter has been published and is available to view online now on the Newsletters page. Hardcopies will be available at the commencement ceremony and reception and in the main office. The online version includes navigation links from the table of contents on the cover page and links on the top bar of each page which return the document to the cover page. For easier viewing, drag the size of your browser window to fit the size of one full page.

Our spring and fall newsletters contain articles, research, news, and photos about the Geography Department's faculty, students, and alumni.

In this issue:

Message from the Chair
Tom Veblen Named ��Ƶ Distinguished Professor
Mark Serreze Named Professor of Distinction
Yaffa Truelove, New Geography Faculty Member
New Geography Instructors, Mike Dwyer and Sarah Kelly
Graduate Student IGNITE Talks
Department News
Donor Support

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