Judith Beyer

Judith Beyer is Full Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She specializes in political and legal anthropology and conducts long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), Southeast Asia (Myanmar) and increasingly in Europe. Find out more at judithbeyer.com and follow her on twitter @JudithBeyer.

‘You messed with the wrong generation’: the young people resisting Myanmar’s military

Since the coup, social media has become an essential tool for exchanging knowledge and experience between generations

By Judith Beyer

/ 11 Feb 2021

‘You messed with the wrong generation’: the young people resisting Myanmar’s military

Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice: when the personal is political

Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory.

By Judith Beyer and Felix Girke

/ 8 Dec 2019

Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice: when the personal is political

Saints in politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the dilemmas of political desire

We delude ourselves by projecting qualities onto politicians who have no intention of embodying them.

By Judith Beyer

/ 24 Sep 2017

Kyrgyzstan: referendum in a time of upheaval

Judith Beyer observes the run-up to Kyrgyzstan’s constitutional referendum from the vantage point of the countryside, away from the centres of violence. A Kyrgyz majority will ensure that Otunbaeva gets the result she wants, Beyer predicts. But this bodes badly for the future

By Judith Beyer

/ 26 Jun 2010