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.
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. Sporadic blog at [1] Editor of the olline journal for cultural studies SeminarBG at [2]
Some online articles
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
Books
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 [3]
Gift in the Age of its Technical Reproductibility, Sofia 1999
To Give Without Losing. Exchange in the imaginary of Modernity Paris, 1997
(French)[4]
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
