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Ivaylo Ditchev
is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the St Kliment Ohridsky University in Sofia. His current research is on cities and practices of citizenship. His last book is Desire of Spaces, Spaces of Desire: Studies in Urban Anthropology, Sofia: LIK 2005. Ivaylo Ditchev regularly contributes to the German edition of Lettre International, and in Bulgaria to the daily Sega and the weekly Capital.
More at www.ivayloditchev.cult.bg.
Eurozine Articles
Mobile citizenship?
The "new mobility" implies new freedoms as well as new privations. The biographies of Bulgarian migrants reveal how the horizon of departure has become a basic dimension of the world. Mobility, writes Ivaylo Ditchev, will need to be taken more seriously in the anthropology of citizenship. [more]
Sofia, fluid city
New social inequalities brought by the transition to a free-market economy are taking shape in the traditionally privileged Sofia. In a privatized city, affluence levels are all too easily read in the urban fabric. But appropriations at the neighbourhood level are mere irritations compared to larger incursions into the city space. [more]
Utopia of freedom or reality of submission?
Large sections of the populations of countries at the peripheries of the EU are in permanent migratory motion. The trend towards overcoming arbitrary socio-political territories has its apotheosis in the Internet's utopian horizon of absolute mobility. [French and German versions added] [more]
Crossing borders
The utopia underlying the idea that more mobility will homogenize the EU is proved wrong by the observation that increased crossing of borders creates more difference rather than less. [more]
Monoculturalism as prevailing culture
The absence of ethnic minorities from Bulgaria's public life. [more]