Publications of Judith Beyer

Girke, F.; Beyer, J.: Practicing harmony ideology: ethnographic reflections on community and coercion. Common Knowledge 21 (2), pp. 196 - 235 (2015)

Beyer, J.: Constitutional faith: law and hope in revolutionary Kyrgyzstan. Ethnos 80 (3), pp. 320 - 345 (2015)

Beyer, J.: Customizations of law: courts of elders (aksakal courts) in rural and urban Kyrgyzstan. PoLAR 38 (1), pp. 53 - 71 (2015)

Beyer, J.: Finding the law in Myanmar. Anthropology Today 31 (4), pp. 3 - 7 (2015)

Beyer, J.: Ordering ideals: accomplishing well-being in a Kyrgyz cooperative of elders. Central Asian Survey 32 (4), pp. 432 - 447 (2013)

Beyer, J.: Settling descent: place-making and genealogy in Talas. Central Asian Survey 30 (3/4), pp. 455 - 468 (2011)

Beyer, J.: Ethnonationalismus in Kirgistan: die Ereignisse im Juni 2010. Zentralasien-Analysen 31-32, pp. 11 - 14 (2010)

Beyer, J.: 'It has to start from above': making politics before and after the March Revolution in Kyrgyzstan. Dsca Journal 1, pp. 7 - 16 (2005)

Beyer, J.: Houses of Islam: Muslims, property rights and the state in Myanmar. In: Islam and the state in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist relations and the politics of belonging, pp. 127 - 155 (Ed. Crouch, M.). Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2016)

Beyer, J.: 'There is this law': performing the state in the Kyrgyz courts of elders. In: Ethnographies of the state in Central Asia: performing politics, pp. 99 - 123 (Eds. Reeves, M.; Rasanayagam, J.; Beyer, J.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington (2014)

Rasanayagam, J.; Beyer, J.; Reeves, M.: Introduction: performances, possibilities, and practices of the political in Central Asia. In: Ethnographies of the state in Central Asia: performing politics, pp. 1 - 26 (Eds. Reeves, M.; Rasanayagam, J.; Beyer, J.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington (2014)

Beyer, J.: Settling descent: place making and genealogy in Talas, Kyrgyzstan. In: Movement, power and place in Central Asia and beyond: contested trajectories, pp. 97 - 110 (Ed. Reeves, M.). Routledge, London (2012)

Beyer, J.: Authority as accomplishment: intergenerational dynamics in Talas, Northern Kyrgyzstan. In: Eurasian perspectives: in search of alternatives, pp. 78 - 92 (Eds. Sengupta, A.; Chatterjee, S.). Shipra Publications, New Delhi (2010)

Beyer, J.: Revitalisation, invention and continued existence of the Kyrgyz aksakal courts: listening to pluralistic accounts of history. In: Dynamics of plural legal orders, pp. 141 - 176 (Ed. Benda-Beckmann, F. v.). LIT, Berlin (2006)

Beyer, J.: Rhetoric of 'transformation': the case of the Kyrgyz constitutional reform. In: Realities of transformation: democratization policies in Central Asia revisited, pp. 43 - 62 (Ed. Berg, A.). Nomos, Baden-Baden (2006)

Beyer, J.: Die Aksakal-Gerichte in Kirgistan: historische Entwicklung und aktuelle Situation einer traditionellen Rechtsinstanz in Zentralasien. In: Rechtspluralismus in der islamischen Welt: Gewohnheitsrecht zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft, pp. 342 - 358 (Ed. Kemper, M.). De Gruyter, Berlin (2005)

Beyer, J.: According to Salt: an ethnography of customary law in Talas, Kyrgyzstan. Dissertation, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale (2009)

Beyer, J.: Imagining the state in rural Kyrgyzstan: how perceptions of the state create customary law in the Kyrgyz aksakal courts. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 95 (2007), 18 pp.

Beyer, J.: Politökonomische Kurzanalyse (PÖK) on 'Kyrgyzstan' for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). (2006), 22 pp.

Benda-Beckmann, F. v.; Benda-Beckmann, K. v.; Beyer, J.; Jacobs, C.; Ramstedt, M.; Turner, B.: Religion in disputes, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report 2010/2011, pp. 70 - 71 (2012)

Beyer, J.: Photographs for Kyrgyzstandagy mazar basuu: Talas tazhryjbasynyn negizinde = Mazar worship in Kyrgyzstan: rituals and practitioners in Talas, (2007)

Beyer, J.: Kyrgyzstan: referendum in a time of upheaval. Open Democracy (2010)

Beyer, J.: Dresch, Paul and Hannah Skoda. 2012. Legalism: anthropology and history. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Social Anthropology 22 (1), pp. 123 - 125 (2014)

Beyer, J.: Franziska Torma, Turkestan-Expeditionen: zur Kulturgeschichte deutscher Forschungsreisen nach Mittelasien (1890-1930) (Kulturgeschichten der Moderne; 5), Bielefeld (Transcript) 2011. WerkstattGeschichte (60), pp. 114 - 117 (2012)

Beyer, J.: Mark Edele, Soviet veterans of the Second World War: a popular movement in an authoritarian society, 1941–1991. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Europe Asia Studies 63 (1), pp. 158 - 159 (2011)

Beyer, J.: Fernanda Pirie "Peace and conflict in Ladakh: the construction of a fragile web of order". Brills Tibetan Studies Library, Vol. 13. Leiden, Boston: Brill. 2007. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 59, pp. 161 - 164 (2009)

Beyer, J.: Kazakhstan: Ethnicity, Language and Power, Bhavna Dave (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), xii, 242 pp. Nationalities Papers 36 (5), pp. 903 - 905 (2008)

Reeves, M.; Rasanayagam, J.; Beyer, J. (Eds.): Ethnographies of the state in Central Asia: performing politics. Indiana University Press, Bloomington (2014), X, 320 pp.

Beyer, J.: The force of custom: law and the ordering of everyday life in Kyrgyzstan. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh (2016), XXVI, 244 pp.

Beyer, J.; Inogamova, Z.: Bajyz apanyn žašoo taržymaly. Gulčynar, Biškek (2010), 95 pp.

Beyer, J.; Knee, R.: Kirgistan: ein ethnografischer Bildband über Talas; a photoethnography of Talas. Hirmer, München (2007), 223 pp.

Beyer, J.: Celebrating arba'een: Shia in Myanmar. (2016)

Beyer, J.: On parasitic professionalism. (2016)

Beyer, J.; Girke, F.: Naypyitaw: rescaling materiality, capitalizing space. (2016)

Beyer, J.: Simulacrum Crimea. (2015)

Beyer, J.: Rights and responsibilities: anonymous peer review. (2015)

Beyer, J.: Bears and the Russian body politic: watching Vladimir Putin's press conference on 18 December 2014. (2015)

Beyer, J.: Which constitution? What order?: constitutional politics in Ukraine. (2015)

Beyer, J.: Anthropology between book and blog: evaluation criteria and communication in contemporary academia. (2015)