Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
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.
Since the coup, social media has become an essential tool for exchanging knowledge and experience between generations
Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory.
We delude ourselves by projecting qualities onto politicians who have no intention of embodying them.
Judith Beyer observes the run-up to Kyrgyzstan’s constitutional referendum from the vantage point of the...