Rate My Professor Dimitar Anguelov

Dimitar Anguelov is a Lecturer in Geography in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Washington, Seattle, a Master of Arts in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining Monash, Anguelov served as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His academic career focuses on human geography, with expertise developed through rigorous training in geographical political economy.

Anguelov's research examines the geopolitical economies of development and global capitalism, emphasizing finance, governance, and regional dynamics in East and Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia and China. He investigates the interdependencies between financial capital and socio-economic systems, the contested nature of market-state relations, and the evolving roles of states and markets in sustainable development. His work critiques neoliberal reforms promoting market-based financial norms for public goods and services, amid intensifying geopolitical competition between Western democracies and rising powers. Key publications include 'State-owned enterprises and the politics of financializing infrastructure development in Indonesia: de-risking at the Limit?' (Development and Change, 2024), 'Rezoning at the threshold of two systems: regionalised party–statecraft in China’s Greater Bay Area' (Regional Studies, 2024), 'Financializing urban infrastructure? The speculative state-spaces of ‘public-public partnerships’ in Jakarta' (Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2023), 'Contextualizing Coronavirus Geographically' (Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2020), and 'Jakarta’s great land transformation: Hybrid neoliberalisation and informality' (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2019). These contributions appear in leading journals, reflecting his influence on debates in urban governance, financialization, infrastructure, and uneven development. His scholarship employs conjunctural, relational, and multi-scalar approaches to socio-economic processes.