Ivaylo Ditchev
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Ivaylo Ditchev (Bulgarian: Ивайло Дичев) is professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University, Bulgaria. He has been teaching abroad, mainly in in France and the USA.
He has a PhD in Sofia and Paris-7, started 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.
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.
[edit] Some online articles
[edit] Books
- 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 callender, short stories, Sofia 1982
- I learn to cry, short stories, Sofia 1979
