for other articles and online contributions see here.

accepted

(with Samia Akhter-Khan, Nickey Diamond, Demo Lulin and Sarah Riebel). Exiled activists from Myanmar. Predicaments and possibilities of human rights activism from abroad. Journal of Human Rights Practice

L’anthropologie juridique et l’actualité du « droit vivant » d’Eugen Ehrlich. Droit et Societé LGDJ Éditions.

2025

Asylum interviews in the UK. The problem of evidence and the possibility of applied anthropology. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 33(3): 51-65 (open access)

2023

Community as a category of empire. ‘The work of community’ among Burmese Indians in Myanmar. History and Anthropology. (pdf here).

Perversion and the state. Lacan, de Sade and why 120 Days of Sodom is now French national heritage. European Journal of Psychoanalysis 10,1. (open access).

2022

The common sense of expert activists. Practitioners, scholars and the problem of statelessness in Europe. Dialectical Anthropology (open access).

2021

(with Felix Girke). Myanmar: Ein Land im Widerstand. Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik. April., pp.33-36 (pdf here).

2020

(with Felix Girke). The state of custom. Gerd Spittler’s ‘Dispute settlement in the shadow of Leviathan‘ (1980) today. For Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie – The German Journal of Law and Society. Special Issue. 41,1.pp. 3-20.

2019

(with Peter Finke). Introduction: Practices of traditionalization in Central Asia. Special issue for Central Asian Survey, 38,3. pp. 310-328. (pdf here).

(with Aijarkyn Kojobekova). Women of protest, men of applause. Political activism, gender and tradition in Kyrgyzstan. Special issue “Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia” for Central Asian Survey, 38,3, edited by Judith Beyer and Peter Finke, pp. 329-345.

2018

(with Felix Girke). ‘Transition’ as a migratory model in Myanmar. For: Special issue  “Progress for whom?” in Journal of Burma Studies. 22,2. pp. 215-241. (pdf here).

Den Staat ver/fassen. Verfassungspolitik und Verfassungsglaube in Kirgistan und Myanmar. Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / Law and Politics in Africa, Asia, Latin America. 51,1. pp. 36-53. (pdf here).

2015

Finding the law in Myanmar. Anthropology Today. 31,4. pp. 3-7. (pdf here).

(with Felix Girke). Practicing harmony ideology. Ethnographic reflections on community and coercion. Common Knowledge. Special issue: Peace by other means. Symposium on the role of ethnography and the humanities in the understanding, prevention, and resolution of enmity. Part 3, edited by Jeffrey Perl. Volume 21,2. pp. 196-235. (pdf here).

Customizations of law. Courts of elders (aksakal courts) in rural and urban Kyrgyzstan. PoLAR. Special issue: edited by Melissa Demian. Volume 38,1. pp. 53-71. (pdf here).

Constitutional faith. Law and hope in revolutionary Kyrgyzstan. Ethnos: Journal of  Anthropology. 80,3. pp. 320-345. DOI-Number: 10.1080/00141844.2013.841270. (pdf here).

2013

Ordering  ideals. Accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders. Central Asian Survey. Special issue: Negotiating well-being in Central  Asia, edited by David Montgomery. Volume 32,4. pp. 432-447. (pdf here).

2011

Settling descent. Place-making and  genealogy in Talas, Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey. Special issue: Movement,  power and place. in Central Asia, edited by Madeleine Reeves. Volume 30 (3-4). pp. 455-468. (pdf here).

2006

Revitalisation, invention and continued  existence of the Kyrgyz aksakal courts. Listening to pluralistic  accounts of history. In: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von and Keebet von  Benda-Beckmann (eds.) Dynamics of plural legal orders. The Journal of  Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 53/54. pp. 141-175. (pdf here).