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.
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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...