For peer-reviewed journal articles see here.
2024
Unsicheres Wissen. Die asymmetrische Ko-Konstruktion von Plausibilität in britischen Asylverfahren. In Vorläufige Gewissheiten, edited by Thomas G. Kirsch and Christina Wald. Bielefeld: Transcript.
2023
Legal pluralism in Central Asia. The customization of state and religious law in Kyrgyzstan. In The Central Asian World, edited by Jeanne Feaux de la Croix and Madeleine Reeves. London: Routledge. pp. 409-421.
‘Illegal’ migration and the Othering of activist lawyers in the UK. For Activist Lawyer Blog series. December 18.
2022
Statelessness, expert activists and the ‘practitioner-scholar dilemma’. For Critical Statelessness Studies (CSS) Blog series. November 24.
Law. In Central Asia. Contexts for understanding, edited by David Montgomery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 393-404.
Who gets to be ‘Myanmar’ at the ICJ? For Allegra Lab February 19.
2021
Nationalismus oder Terrorismus? Das Beispiel des burmesischen Mönchs Wirathu. In Terrorismus im 21. Jahrhundert. Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. In der Reihe “Zeitbilder”, edited by Jana Kärgel. pp. 332-333.
“You messed with the wrong generation”. For OpenDemocracy February 11.
Im Namen der Stabilität. Militärputsch in Myanmar. For TAZ February 4.
2020
“Deutsch” in Gänsefüßchen. For TAZ July 23.
On being voices of prudence in times of a pandemic. For Allegra Lab March 23.
2019
Das Recht der Anderen. Rechtsethnologie zwischen Pluralität, Indigenität und Alterität. In Interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung. Eine Einführung, edited by Christian Boulanger, Julika Rosenstock und Tobias Singelnstein. Wiesbaden: Springer. pp. 91-108.
Harmony ideology at The Hague. Myanmar at the International Court of Justice. For Public Anthropologist December 14.
Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice. When the personal is political. For openDemocracy December 8.
Thematic thread on #statelessness, displacement, disappearance. For Allegra Lab June 24 – June 28.
Introduction to Thematic thread on #statelessness, displacement, disappearance. For Allegra Lab June 24.
Accountability in statelessness. As part of the thematic thread on #statelessness, displacement, disappearance. For Allegra Lab June 26.
Recentering the side-lines. On the politics of ‘standing-by’. For Public Anthropologist May 4.
2018
Saving face, evoking law. On the usefulness of symbolization theory for legal anthropology. In Anthropology as hommage. Festschrift for Ivo Strecker, edited by Felix Girke and Sophia Thubauville. Mainz: Rüdiger Köppe, pp. 289-304.
2017
After the eulogy? The future of Central Asian Studies in the accelerated academy. For Allegra Lab December 4.
Saints in Politics. Aung San Suu Kyi and the Dilemmas of Political Desire. For openDemocracy September 24.
Reviewing the Review Process For Allegra Lab January 20.
2016
Houses of Islam. Muslims, property rights and the state in Myanmar. In: Crouch, Melissa (ed.): Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging. Oxford University Press, pp.127-155.
Celebrating Arba’een. Shia in Myanmar For Allegra Lab August 19.
On Parasitic Professionalism For Allegra Lab May 30.
Naypyitaw: Rescaling Materiality, Capitalizing Space For FocaalBlog March 24.
2015
Rights and Responsibilities. Anonymous Peer Review. For Allegra Lab June 22.
Anthropology Between Book and Blog. Evaluation Criteria and Communiation in Academia. For Allegra Lab March 2.
2014
Ordering Ideals. Accomplishing Well-Being in a Kyrgyz Cooperative of Elders. In: Montgomery, David (ed.): Negotiating Well-Being in Central Asia. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp.10-25.
(together with Johan Rasanayagam and Madeleine Reeves) Introduction: Performances, possibilities, and practices of the political in Central Asia. In: Reeves, Madeleine, Johan Rasanayagam and Judith Beyer (eds.): Ethnographies of the state in Central Asia. Performing politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 1-26.
‘There is this law.’ Performing the state in the Kyrgyz courts of elders. In: Reeves, Madeleine, Johan Rasanayagam and Judith Beyer (eds.): Ethnographies of the state in Central Asia. Performing politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 99-123.
Bears and the Russian Body Politic. For Allegra Lab December 19 and April 2015.
Simulacrum Crimea. For Allegra Lab April 4.
Which constitution? What order? Constitutional politics in Ukraine. For Allegra Lab March 6.
2012
Settling descent: Place-making and genealogy in Talas, Kyrgyzstan. In: Reeves, Madeleine (ed.). Movement, power and place in Central Asia and beyond: Contested trajectories. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 97-110. PDF available for download here.
2010
Authority as accomplishment. Intergenerational dynamics in Talas, Northern Kyrgyzstan. In: Sengupta, Anita and Suchandana Chatterjee (eds). Eurasian Perspectives. In search of alternatives. New Delhi: Shipra, pp. 78-92. PDF available for download here.
Die ethnische Karte gespielt. Judith Beyer über den Konflikt in Kirgistan. Radio Interview For Deutschlandradio Kultur June 21.
Ethnonationalismus in Kirgistan. Die Ereignisse im Juni 2010 [Ethnonationalism in Kyrgyzstan. The June 2010 events]. For Zentralasien-Analysen 31/32. pp.11-14 (in German).
Kyrgyzstan. Referendum in a time of upheaval. For openDemocracy June 26.
2006
Rhetoric of ‘transformation’: The case of the Kyrgyz constitutional reform. In: Berg, Andrea and Anna Kreikemeyer (eds.): Realities of transformation: Democratization policies in Central Asia revisited. Baden-Baden: Nomos. pp, 43-62. PDF available for download here.
2005
Die Aksakal-Gerichte in Kirgistan: Historische Entwicklung und aktuelle Situation einer traditionellen Rechtsinstanz in Zentralasien [The aksakal courts in Kyrgyzstan. Historical development and current situation of a traditional legal institution in Central Asia]. In: Kemper, Michael and Maurus Reinkowski (eds.): Rechtspluralismus in der islamischen Welt: Gewohnheitsrecht zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 342-358 (in German). PDF available for download here.
Sravnitelnyi analiz transformacionnykh processov v Kyrgyzstane i Nigerii (Zapadnaia Afrika) [Comparative analysis of transformation processes in Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria]. In: Iskakova, Gulnara: Konstitutsionnoe stroitelstvo prezidentsko-parlamentskikh vzaimootno-shenii na postsovetskom prostranstve. Bishkek: Soros-Foundation, pp. 44-55 (in Russian).
‘It has to start from above’. Making politics before and after the March revolution in Kyrgyzstan. For Danish Society for Central Asia’s Electronic Quarterly 1. pp.7-16.
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