Judith Beyer is Professor of Anthropology (tenure track) at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She is a specialist in legal and political anthropology and is currently finishing a monograph on the so-called “Burmese Indians” in Myanmar. Find out more at judithbeyer.com and follow her on twitter @JudithBeyer.
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Published in: TransformationAung 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.
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Published in: TransformationSaints 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.
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan: referendum in a time of upheaval
Judith Beyer observes the run-up to Kyrgyzstan’s constitutional referendum from the vantage point of the...