Ivaylo Ditchev

Ivaylo Ditchev

Ivaylo Ditchev (Bulgarian: Ивайло Дичев) is professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University, Bulgaria. He has been teaching abroad, mainly in France and the USA. Honorary associate of the Graduate school for East and South-East European studies in Regensburg

He has a PhD from Sofia and Paris-7 universities, began as assistant in aesthetics, then after 1989 became interested in social science focusing on political culture, urban anthropology, and Balkan identity. His latest research interests are citizenship, migration, and the anthropology of space. Directs a MA program in cultural anthropology, publishes the onlinejournal for cultural studies SeminarBG (www.seminar-bg.eu).

Ivaylo Ditchev is also an active columnist in Bulgaria and Germany, author of books of essays and fiction. He was awarded the Essay prizes: « Panitza » 1999; « Chernorizetz Hrabar » 2002, “Dimitar Peshev” - 2005.

Some online articles[]

Deutsche Welle, My Europe https://www.dw.com/search/en?searchNavigationId=9097&languageCode=en&origin=gN&item=ditchev

• "From a socialism of migrants towards a Europe of mobilities", in Migrations to and from Southeastern Europe, eds. Krasteva, Kasabova, Karabinova, Ravena Longo editore, 2010.
• Sofia, fluid city, Eurozine
• Die geheimen Freuden des Provinzialismus
• Crossing borders, Eurozine
• Sieg der Essiggurke, TAZ
• Fluid citizenship, Eurozine
• The Eros of Identity
• The frame that enslaved our gaze, Lettre international - Berlin

Articles in the Aspen review: https://www.aspenreview.com/author/ivaylo-ditchev/ The Eros of identity in Balkans as metaphor (p 235) https://www.academia.edu/37254573/Balkan_as_Mataphor-_Between_Globalization_and_Fragmentationpdf.pdf

Books[]

• "Cultural scenes of the political" Sofia, Prosveta, 2019

"Culture as distance. 11 essays in cultural anthropology" Sofia university, 2016 'Citizens beyond places? New mobilities, new borders, new forms of belonging, Prosveta, 2009 (Bulgarian)

• Spaces of Desire, Desire of Spaces. Studies in Urban Anthropology, Sofia, 2005
• Form belonging to identity. Politics of the image, Sofia, 2002 [1]
• Gift in the Age of its Technical Reproductibility, Sofia, 1999
• To Give Without Losing. Exchange in the imaginary of Modernity Paris, 1997

(French)[2]

• Albania-Utopia. Behind Closed Doors in the Balkans, (author, editor) Paris, 1996 (French)
• Eroticism of authorship, Sofia, 1991
• Literalisms, miniatures, Sofia 1991
• Borders between me and me, essays, Sofia 1990
• A second after the end of the world, short stories, Sofia, 1988
• Identification, novel, Sofia, 1987
• Astral Calendar, short stories, Sofia 1982^[1]
• I learn to cry, short stories, Sofia 1979

References[]

External links[]

• Personal web page