Elmond Bandauko
Elmond Bandauko is Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. He is also the Director of the Informality and Everyday Urbanism Lab (INFELA). He completed his PhD in Geography and Environment from the University of Western Ontario, where he received the Governor General’s Gold Medal.
An interdisciplinary human geographer and critical urban scholar, his research revolves around four themes: (i) geographies of precarity, (ii) informal infrastructures ad Do It Yourself (DIY) Urbanism (iii) Urban governance and agency of the poor and (iv) sense of belonging and place-based experiences. His work is published in leading journals in the field of urban geography such as Dialogues in Human Geography, Habitat International, Urban Geography, Political Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Cities and Geoforum among others.
Within the Bridging Divides program, Elmond conducts research under the Place and Infrastructure theme, focusing on age friendly infrastructure in Canada’s ethnic neighbourhoods.
Selected Publications
Bandauko, E & Asante, L, A (2026). ‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested Logics of Spatial Formalization of Street Traders in Harare and Kumasi (external link) . Habitat International.
Bandauko, E (2025). ‘Shadowing the State’: Subaltern Surveillance and the Rhythms of Everyday Resistance (external link) . Dialogues in Human Geography.
Bandauko, E (2025). “This space is ours…”: Street Trading and Contestation over the Right to City in Harare’s Central Business District (CBD) (external link) . Annals of the American Association of Geographers.