Stateless/displaced/disappeared

This thematic thread explores the topics of statelessness, displacement and disappearance in terms of who can claim justice on whose behalf and the various ways in which uncertainty and accountability are being processed. Curated by Judith Beyer.

Judith Beyer is Junior Professor of Political Anthropology (tenure track) at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She works on and in Central Asia and Myanmar. Judith has published on authority, constitutional politics, legal pluralism, the state and property.

Stateless/displaced/disappeared Threads

Where are the Nuba queens?

June, 2019 / By Siri Lamoureaux

The Sudanese revolution had slowly been gaining recognition since December 2018, when, in April 2019, a photo of women’s activism […]

Stateless/displaced/disappeared Threads

Double disappearance after Oman’s Dhufar war

June, 2019 / By Alice Wilson

The Omani government has silenced requests to reveal the location of the graves of executed insurgents from the Dhufar war

Stateless/displaced/disappeared Threads

Accountability in statelessness

June, 2019 / By Judith Beyer

In this post, I outline first findings from my ongoing research project on “Accountability in statelessness.” The project is based

Stateless/displaced/disappeared Threads

Paradoxes of child statelessness in Sabah

June, 2019 / By Catherine Allerton

Since 2012, I have been researching and writing about the difficult situation faced by the children of Filipino and Indonesian

Stateless/displaced/disappeared Threads

Introduction to stateless/displaced/disappeared

June, 2019 / By Judith Beyer

This thematic thread evolved out of a workshop on Claiming justice after conflict. The stateless, the displaced and the