Dimitar Anguelov is a Lecturer in Geography in the School of Social Sciences. Prior to joining Monash, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dimitar's research examines the geopolitical economies of development and global capitalism, with a focus on finance and governance, and regional expertise on East and Southeast Asia.

In this era of globalizing and financializing capitalism, Dimitar's research investigates the rapidly deepening interdependencies between financial capital and socio-economic systems, the contested nature of market-state relations, and the changing role of the state and markets in development. Broadly, his research interrogates the role of neoliberal reform efforts in advancing market-based financial norms and practices for delivering public goods and services, and for realizing sustainable development. In the context of increasing geopolitical and geo-economic competition between Western market democracies and such rising powers as China and Indonesia, his research also examines how market-based norms and practices are increasingly contested in various policy fields, from service delivery to industrial policy and green development.

• Geographically (and historically) variegated market-state relations
  • neoliberalism, state-capitalism, hybrid formations

• The role of financialization and marketization processes in shaping approaches to socio-economic and ecological governance
  • at urban, regional and global scales

• (Geo)political-economies of uneven development
  • particularly, but not limited to, Asia-Pacific (Indonesia, China)

• Discourses, rationalities and practices of D/development

• The impacts of technological change and innovation on development
  • finance, blockchain, and the digital economy

• Conjunctural, relational and multi-scalar approaches to understanding socio-economic processes

ATS3229 - Cities, Globalisation and Sustainability

APG5805 - Project Planning and Management in International Dvelopment