Ivaylo Ditchev ( bg, Ивайло Дичев) is professor of
cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The portma ...
at
Sofia University
Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...
,
Bulgaria
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. He has been teaching abroad, mainly in
France
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and the
USA
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. 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
Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...
, then after 1989 became interested in
social science
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...
focusing on
political culture
Political culture describes how culture impacts politics. Every political system is embedded in a particular political culture.
Definition
Gabriel Almond defines it as "the particular pattern of orientations toward political actions in which ...
,
urban anthropology
Urban anthropology is a subset of anthropology concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, urban space, social relations, and neoliberalism. The field has become consolidated in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that trad ...
, and Balkan identity. His latest research interests are
citizenship
Citizenship is a "relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection".
Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and ...
,
migration
Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to: Human migration
* Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another
** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...
, 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
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in Bulgaria and
Germany
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, 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, EurozineSieg der Essiggurke, TAZThe Eros of IdentityThe frame that enslaved our gaze
Lettre international
''Lettre International'' is the title of a number of cultural magazines published in various languages in Europe. The history of ''Lettre International'' dates back to 1984, the year that the original French edition (''Lettre Internationale'') fir ...
- 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, 200
* ''Gift in the Age of its Technical Reproductibility'', Sofia, 1999
* ''To Give Without Losing. Exchange in the imaginary of Modernity'' Paris, 1997
(Frenc
* ''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
References
External links
Personal web page
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Living people
1955 births
Bulgarian anthropologists
Bulgarian sociologists
Bulgarian journalists
Sofia University alumni
Sofia University faculty