Current Teaching at UCLA
Public Affairs 159: Politics of Water
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Access to safe and sustainable water provision is major challenge for governments. Examination of political, economic, and social dimensions of water provision in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and U.S. Key issues include water and state building, market reforms and globalization, social mobilization, and citizen demand making strategies, role of crisis in citizen claims making surrounding water related problems such as drought, floods, hydrodams, mining, and water pollution.
Public Affairs 112: Social Movements
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to theories, real-life examples, and applied skills for understanding and contributing to social movements. Examination of how and why social movements emerge; how and why people join, lead, stay, or drop out of movements; and strategies and tactics by which social movements enact change. Draws upon wide range of social movements inside and outside of U.S.
Urban Planning 233: Urban Politics in the Global South
Seminar. Examination of urban politics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with focus on comparative analysis. Overall focus on institutions, government, and politics, and how these shape urban life in the Global South. Topics may include decentralization; public service provision; rule of law and urban violence; participatory institutions; mass mobilization; local campaigns and elections; environmental issues; transportation; housing; and race, ethnicity, and representation.
Urban Planning 269: Waste, Environment and Society
Seminar. An interdisciplinary study of garbage, and its relationship to environmental problems, labor, land use and urban planning, and public health. The environmental and social impacts of modern industry, capitalism and consumerism are examined through the study of waste production and management. Topics include environmental justice, plastics, e-waste, textiles, international waste commodity trading, waste colonialism, and the relationship between waste and climate change.
Urban Planning 239: Political Economy of Development and Urbanization (not currently offered)
Former Teaching at University of Connecticut
Latin American Politics (Undergraduate Upper-Level Survey Course)
Democratic Culture and Citizenship in Latin America (Undergraduate Upper-Level Survey Course)
Qualitative Methods (PhD Seminar, Political Science)
Environmental Justice (Undergraduate Upper-Level Survey Course)