Annika Pohl Harrisson is an anthropologist interested in state– society relations, 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 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. He is the author of At the Edges of States (KITLV Press/Brill Academic Publishers, 2012) and co-editor with Mona Chettri of Development Zones in Asian Borderlands (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).