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Wadley, R. & Eilenberg, M. (2005). Autonomy, identity and 'illegal logging' in the borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 6(1), 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442210500074853

Wadley, R. & Eilenberg, M. (2006). Vigilantes and gangsters in the borderlands of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, 7, 1-25. https://kyotoreview.org/issue-7/vigilantes-and-gangsters-in-the-borderland-of-west-kalimantan-indonesia/

Saito-Jensen, M., Sikor, T., Kurniawan, Y., Eilenberg, M., Setyawan, E. P. & Kustini, S. J. (2015). Policy Options for Effective REDD+ Implementation in Indonesia: The Significance of Forest Tenure Reform. International Forestry Review, 17(1), 86-97. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1505/146554815814725040

McGregor, A., Eilenberg, M. & Borges Coutinho, J. (2015). From Global Policy to Local Politics: The Social Dynamics of REDD+ in Asia Pacific. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 56(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12091

Lund, C. & Eilenberg, M. (Eds.) (2016). Rule and Rupture: State Formation through the Production of Property and Citizenship (Special Journal Issue). Development and Change, 47(6), 1197-1456. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12274

Lund, C. & Eilenberg, M. (Eds.) (2017). Rule and Rupture: State formation through the production of property and citizenship. Wiley-Blackwell. Development and Change Vol. Special issue

Lund, J. F., Amanzi, N., Baral, S., Basnyat, B., Chhetri, B., Eilenberg, M., Hansen, C., Lund, C., Mbeyale, G., Meilby, H., Ngaga, Y., Pokharel, R., Rayamajhi, S., Sungusia, E. & Treue, T. (2019). Towards Participatory Forestry: Policy Briefs - Copenhagen Centre for Development Research, University of Copenhagen. Policy Brief, 1(May).

Harrisson, A. P. & Eilenberg, M. (Eds.) (2025). Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature. Helsinki University Press. https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-30

Harrisson, A. P. & Eilenberg, M. (2024). Fenced In: Infrastructural Anxieties in the Danish-German Borderlands. Roadsides, 12, 51-58. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202401208

Harrisson, A. P. & Eilenberg, M. (2025). Where Fencing and Biosecurity Interlock: The Politics of Managing and Anticipating Risk. In Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature (pp. 1-33). Helsinki University Press. https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-30-1

Flora, J., Eilenberg, M., Broberg Hansen, M. & Randrup Pedersen, T. (2025). Jagt – et klassisk tema i nye problemstillinger. Jordens Folk, 60(2), 2-6.

Eilenberg, M. (2005). Paradoxical outcomes of national schooling in the borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia: The case of the Iban. Borneo Research Bulletin, 36, 163-184. http://www.borneoresearchcouncil.org/publications/index.htm#brb

Eilenberg, M. (2006). Grænsestrategier og transnationale relationer. Nord Nytt, 98, 21-40.

Eilenberg, M. (2008). Borderland encounters: A letter from Kapuas Hulu. RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 42(1), 191-200. http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=181478861077899;res=E-LIBRARY

Eilenberg, M. & Wadley, R. (2009). Borderland strategies: The socio-economic significance of ethnicity in cross-border labour migration. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 50(1), 58-73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8373.2009.01381.x

Eilenberg, M. (2009). Negotiating autonomy at the margins of the state: The dynamics of elite politics in the borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. South East Asia Research, 17(2), 201-227. https://doi.org/10.5367/000000009788745831

Eilenberg, M. (2011). Straddling the border: A marginal history of guerilla warfare and 'counter-insurgency' in the Indonesian borderlands. Modern Asian Studies, 45(6), 1423–1463. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X11000230

Eilenberg, M. (2008). Claiming authority at the edges of the state: Regional autonomy and local politics in the West Kalimantan borderlands. (7 ed.) (pp. 1-29).

Eilenberg, M. (2012). Territorial sovereignty and trafficking in the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands. In M. Ford, L. Lyons & W. van Schendel (Eds.), Labour migration and human trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical perspectives (Vol. 44, pp. 112-129). Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415665636/

Eilenberg, M. (2012). At the edges of states: Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands . (275 ed.) KITLV Press. http://www.kitlv.nl/book/show/1319

Eilenberg, M. (2013). Timber Entrepreneur, Cukong Kayu. In J. Barker, E. Harms & J. Lindquist (Eds.), Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity (pp. 192-195). University of Hawaii Press. http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8936-9780824837419.aspx

Eilenberg, M. (2014). Evading Colonial Authority. Rebels and Outlaws in the Borderlands of Dutch West Borneo 1850s–1920s. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 29(1), 11-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2014.892690

Eilenberg, M. (2011). Flouting the law: Vigilante justice and regional autonomy on the Indonesian border. A S E A S: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 4(2), 237-253. https://doi.org/10.4232/10.ASEAS-4.2-3

Eilenberg, M. (2014). Frontier constellations: Agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border. Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(2), 157-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.885433

Eilenberg, M. (2014). At the Edges of States: Dynamics of State Formation in the Indonesian Borderlands. (Reprint 2 ed.) Brill. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Vol. 275 http://www.brill.com/products/book/edges-states

Eilenberg, M. (2015). Shades of green and REDD: Local and global contestations over the value of forest versus plantation development on the Indonesian forest frontier. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 56(1), 48-61. https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12084

Eilenberg, M. (2016). Nested Sovereignties: Autonomy and Authority in the Indonesian Borderlands. In M. Haug, M. Rössler & AT. Grumblies (Eds.), Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia: Transforming the Margins (pp. 80-95). Routledge.

Eilenberg, M. (2016). A State of Fragmentation: Enacting Sovereignty and Citizenship at the Edge of the Indonesian State. Development and Change, 47(6), 1338-1360. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12272

Eilenberg, M. & Cons, J. (Eds.) (2019). Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia. Wiley.

Eilenberg, M. & Lund, C. (2017). Rule and rupture. State formation through the production of property and citizenship. Policy Brief: Copenhagen Centre for Development Research. https://pure.au.dk/admin/files/114186666/2017_Policy_Brief_No_2_2017_Christian_Lund_Michael_Eilenberg_12jun2017.pdf

Eilenberg, M. (2018). Frontier constellations: Agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian–Malaysian border . In A. Horstmann, M. Saxer & A. Rippa (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands (pp. 180-189). Routledge.

Eilenberg, M. & Cons, J. (2019). Conclusion: assembling the frontier. In J. Cons & M. Eilenberg (Eds.), Frontier assemblages: the emergent politics of resource frontiers in Asia (pp. 229-234). Wiley-Blackwell.

Eilenberg, M. (2017). A State of Fragmentation: Enacting Sovereignty and Citizenship at the Edge of the Indonesian State. In C. Lund & M. Eilenberg (Eds.), Rule And Rupture: State Formation through The Production of Property and Citizenship (Vol. 107, pp. 139-161). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303772

Eilenberg, M. (2018). Frontier constellations: Agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border. In Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands (pp. 180-189). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688978

Eilenberg, M. & Mikkelsen, T. C. (2021). Genealogies of Extraction: De-facto Development Zones in the Indonesian Borderlands. In M. Eilenberg & M. Chettri (Eds.), Development Zones in Asian Borderlands (pp. 253-277). Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726238/development-zones-in-asian-borderlands

Eilenberg, M. (2022). The Last Enclosure: Smoke, Fire and Crisis on the Indonesian Forest Frontier. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(5), 969-998. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1907355

Eilenberg, M. & Harrisson, A. P. (2023). Boar-der Fencing: Human-Animal Relations in the Danish Borderlands. Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2023(8). https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9610

Eilenberg, M. & Harrisson, A. P. (2025). Fencing, Biosecurity and Wild Boar Politics in the Danish-German Borderland. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 40(1), 159-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2289122

Eilenberg, M. & Cons, J. (2025). Anticipatory Vectors: The Politics and Poetics of Non-Domesticated Pigs in Denmark and Texas. In A. P. Harrisson & M. Eilenberg (Eds.), Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature (pp. 165-197). Helsinki University Press. https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-30-6

Cons, J. & Eilenberg, M. (2019). On the new politics of margins in Asia: mapping frontier assemblages. In J. Cons & M. Eilenberg (Eds.), Frontier assemblages: the emergent politics of resource frontiers in Asia (pp. 1-18). Wiley-Blackwell.

Cons, J. & Eilenberg, M. (2024). Settler Colonial Beasts: Feral Pigs and Frontier Assemblages in Texas. Antipode, 56(2), 424-445. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12965

Chettri, M. & Eilenberg, M. (2019). Reading Space, Society and History in Asia through its Ruins. IIAS Newsletter, 82(Spring), 28-40. https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/reading-space-society-history-asia-through-its-ruins

Chettri, M. & Eilenberg, M. (Eds.) (2021). Development Zones in Asian Borderlands. Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726238/development-zones-in-asian-borderlands

Chettri, M. & Eilenberg, M. (2021). Enclave Development and Socio-spatial Transformations in Asian Borderlands. In M. Eilenberg & M. Chettri (Eds.), Development Zones in Asian Borderlands (pp. 11-33). Amsterdam University Press.

Chettri, M. & Eilenberg, M. (2025). Introduction: Enclave Development and Socio-spatial Transformations in Asian Borderlands. In Development Zones in Asian Borderlands (pp. 11-32). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463726238_intro

Assistant Professor, M. E. (2012). The confession of a timber baron: Patterns of patronage on the Indonesian-Malaysian border. Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power, 19(2), 149-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2012.672841

Revised 03.03.2026

Michael Eilenberg