Yaffa Truelove is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on urban and feminist political ecologies of water, urban infrastructure, and the governance of Indian cities.Anu Sabhlok is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali. Her work lies at the intersection of feminist geography, architecture, labor studies, and critical infrastructure studies.

“This collection offers insights into the ways in which infrastructural challenges, restrictions, breakdowns, and opportunities intersect with gendered labor, mobility, and the ability to effectively access spaces and live in specific places. It will undoubtedly make important and lasting contributions to the extant literature in feminist geography and geographies of development.” - Jennifer L. Fluri, coauthor of Engendering Development: Capitalism and Inequality in the Global Economy

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionYaffa Truelove and Anu Sabhlok1. Concretizing Modernity: The Gendered Labor of Cement Infrastructures in VietnamChristina Schwenkel2. Gender Relations and Infrastructural Labors at the Water Kiosks in Lilongwe, MalawiCecilia Alda-Vidal, Alison L. Browne, and Maria Rusca3. Gendered Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar, SenegalRosalind Fredericks4. Placing Oppression (with)in Public Infrastructures: Tracing an Intersectional Relationship between Gender, Violence, and TechnologyAnshika Suri5. Severing the Spatial Leash: Promoting Women’s Right of Mobility through Digital Disruption and a Feminist Ethics of CareLinda Carroli and Deanna Grant-Smith6. Trains, Trees, and Terraces: Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Refaim Valley, Israel-PalestineGabi Kirk7. Informal Transport Infrastructures: Gendered Experiences of Moving around the Peripheries of Quito, EcuadorCristen DÁvalos and Julie Gamble8. “Dirty Phone”: Infrastructures of Violence against Women in Urban KeralaNabeela Ahmed and Ayona Datta9. Infrastructure of Recyclable Waste as Assemblages: From Scavengers on the Ground to Recycling Workers in CollectivesMargarida QueirÓs, Antonio Cezar Leal, Fernanda Regina Fuzzi, and MÁrio Vale10. Conceptualizing Bodies as Urban Infrastructure: Gender, Intimate Infrastructures, and Slow Infrastructural Violence in Urban Nepal and IndiaYaffa Truelove and Hanna A. Ruszczyk11. Looking into Wells: Picturing the Gendered Relations of Water Infrastructure in Southwest CameroonJennifer A. ThompsonAfterwordAnu Sabhlok and Yaffa TrueloveContributorsIndex

Yaffa Truelove is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on urban and feminist political ecologies of water, urban infrastructure, and the governance of Indian cities.Anu Sabhlok is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali. Her work lies at the intersection of feminist geography, architecture, labor studies, and critical infrastructure studies.

“This collection offers insights into the ways in which infrastructural challenges, restrictions, breakdowns, and opportunities intersect with gendered labor, mobility, and the ability to effectively access spaces and live in specific places. It will undoubtedly make important and lasting contributions to the extant literature in feminist geography and geographies of development.” - Jennifer L. Fluri, coauthor of Engendering Development: Capitalism and Inequality in the Global Economy

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionYaffa Truelove and Anu Sabhlok1. Concretizing Modernity: The Gendered Labor of Cement Infrastructures in VietnamChristina Schwenkel2. Gender Relations and Infrastructural Labors at the Water Kiosks in Lilongwe, MalawiCecilia Alda-Vidal, Alison L. Browne, and Maria Rusca3. Gendered Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar, SenegalRosalind Fredericks4. Placing Oppression (with)in Public Infrastructures: Tracing an Intersectional Relationship between Gender, Violence, and TechnologyAnshika Suri5. Severing the Spatial Leash: Promoting Women’s Right of Mobility through Digital Disruption and a Feminist Ethics of CareLinda Carroli and Deanna Grant-Smith6. Trains, Trees, and Terraces: Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Refaim Valley, Israel-PalestineGabi Kirk7. Informal Transport Infrastructures: Gendered Experiences of Moving around the Peripheries of Quito, EcuadorCristen DÁvalos and Julie Gamble8. “Dirty Phone”: Infrastructures of Violence against Women in Urban KeralaNabeela Ahmed and Ayona Datta9. Infrastructure of Recyclable Waste as Assemblages: From Scavengers on the Ground to Recycling Workers in CollectivesMargarida QueirÓs, Antonio Cezar Leal, Fernanda Regina Fuzzi, and MÁrio Vale10. Conceptualizing Bodies as Urban Infrastructure: Gender, Intimate Infrastructures, and Slow Infrastructural Violence in Urban Nepal and IndiaYaffa Truelove and Hanna A. Ruszczyk11. Looking into Wells: Picturing the Gendered Relations of Water Infrastructure in Southwest CameroonJennifer A. ThompsonAfterwordAnu Sabhlok and Yaffa TrueloveContributorsIndex

Yaffa Truelove is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on urban and feminist political ecologies of water, urban infrastructure, and the governance of Indian cities.Anu Sabhlok is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali. Her work lies at the intersection of feminist geography, architecture, labor studies, and critical infrastructure studies.

“This collection offers insights into the ways in which infrastructural challenges, restrictions, breakdowns, and opportunities intersect with gendered labor, mobility, and the ability to effectively access spaces and live in specific places. It will undoubtedly make important and lasting contributions to the extant literature in feminist geography and geographies of development.” - Jennifer L. Fluri, coauthor of Engendering Development: Capitalism and Inequality in the Global Economy

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionYaffa Truelove and Anu Sabhlok1. Concretizing Modernity: The Gendered Labor of Cement Infrastructures in VietnamChristina Schwenkel2. Gender Relations and Infrastructural Labors at the Water Kiosks in Lilongwe, MalawiCecilia Alda-Vidal, Alison L. Browne, and Maria Rusca3. Gendered Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar, SenegalRosalind Fredericks4. Placing Oppression (with)in Public Infrastructures: Tracing an Intersectional Relationship between Gender, Violence, and TechnologyAnshika Suri5. Severing the Spatial Leash: Promoting Women’s Right of Mobility through Digital Disruption and a Feminist Ethics of CareLinda Carroli and Deanna Grant-Smith6. Trains, Trees, and Terraces: Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Refaim Valley, Israel-PalestineGabi Kirk7. Informal Transport Infrastructures: Gendered Experiences of Moving around the Peripheries of Quito, EcuadorCristen DÁvalos and Julie Gamble8. “Dirty Phone”: Infrastructures of Violence against Women in Urban KeralaNabeela Ahmed and Ayona Datta9. Infrastructure of Recyclable Waste as Assemblages: From Scavengers on the Ground to Recycling Workers in CollectivesMargarida QueirÓs, Antonio Cezar Leal, Fernanda Regina Fuzzi, and MÁrio Vale10. Conceptualizing Bodies as Urban Infrastructure: Gender, Intimate Infrastructures, and Slow Infrastructural Violence in Urban Nepal and IndiaYaffa Truelove and Hanna A. Ruszczyk11. Looking into Wells: Picturing the Gendered Relations of Water Infrastructure in Southwest CameroonJennifer A. ThompsonAfterwordAnu Sabhlok and Yaffa TrueloveContributorsIndex