Fences and Biosecurity

Annika Pohl Harrisson is a social anthropologist interested in state–society relations, borders, environmental politics and human–nature–animal connections. She completed her PhD in 2019 at Aarhus University, where she studied state-making and justice provision in Myanmar. Annika is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, researching the role of borders in the green transition.

Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University. His research focuses on issues of state formation, sovereignty and agrarian expansion in frontier regions of South East Asia, Europe and North America. He is the author of At the Edges of States (KITLV Press/Brill Academic Publishers, 2012) and co-editor with Jason Cons of Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia (Wiley, 2019) and with Mona Chettri of Development Zones in Asian Borderlands (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).