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.
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Published in: Home: Analysis‘You messed with the wrong generation’: the young people resisting Myanmar’s militarySince the coup, social media has become an essential tool for exchanging knowledge and experience between generations
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Published in: TransformationAung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice: when the personal is politicalMyanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory.
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Published in: TransformationSaints in politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the dilemmas of political desireWe delude ourselves by projecting qualities onto politicians who have no intention of embodying them.
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: referendum in a time of upheavalJudith Beyer observes the run-up to Kyrgyzstan’s constitutional referendum from the vantage point of the...