Authored books
Eilenberg, Michael (2012) “At the Edges of States: Dynamics of State Formation in the Indonesian Borderlands”. Leiden: KITLV Press - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies – Monograph Series on Power and Place in Southeast Asia (open access, pdf).
Re-published by BRILL Academic Publishers in January 2014 in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Edited books and journals
Harrisson, Annika and Michael Eilenberg (2024) "Biosecurity Fencing: Governing Biosecurity and Unruly Nature". Helsinki University Press, Accepted for publication.
Chettri, Mona and Michael Eilenberg (2021) “Development Zones in Asian Borderlands”. Amsterdam University Press: Asian Borderland Book Series. (Link to author version of manuscript).
Chettri, Mona and Michael Eilenberg (2019) “Reading Space, Society and History in Asia through its Ruins: Special Issue on Ruins and Borderlands in Asia”. International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter – IIAS, Vol. 82/Spring.
Cons, Jason and Michael Eilenberg (2019) “Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia”. Wiley and Blackwell: Antipode Book Series.
Lund, Christian and Michael Eilenberg (2017) “Rule and Rupture: State Formation through the Production of Property and Citizenship”. Wiley Blackwell: Development & Change Book Series.
Eilenberg, Michael; McGregor Andrew and Borges Coutinho, Joana. (2015) “From Global Policy to Local Politics: Exploring the Social Dynamics of REDD+ in Southeast Asia”. Special Issue of Asia Pacific Viewpoint,Vol. 56 (1): 1-5.
Articles and book chapters
Harrisson, A. P., and Michael Eilenberg (2024). "Fenced In: Infrastructural Anxieties in the Danish-German Borderlands. Roadsides". 12, 51-58. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202401208
Cons, J and Michael Eilenberg (2024) "Settler-Colonial Beasts - Feral Pigs and Frontier Assemblages in Texas". Antipode, Vol. 56, (2): 424-445.
Eilenberg, Michael and Annika Pohl Harrisson (2023) "Fencing, Biosecurity and Wild Boar Politics in the Danish-German Borderland". Journal of Borderland Studies,
E-pub ahead of print - 6 Dec 2023.
Eilenberg, Michael and Annika Pohl Harrisson (2023) “Boar-der Fencing: Human-Animal Conflicts in the Danish Borderlands.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring), no. 7. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9610
Eilenberg, Michael (2022) "The Last Enclosure: Smoke, Fire and Crisis on the Indonesian Forest Frontier". Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 49, (5): 969-998.
Chettri, M and Michael Eilenberg (2021) “Enclave Development and Socio-spatial Transformations in Asian Borderlands in Development Zones” in Mona Chettri and Michael Eilenberg /(eds.) Asian Borderlands. Amsterdam University Press: Asian Borderlands Book Series.
Mikkelsen, T and Michael Eilenberg (2021) “Genealogies of Extraction: De-facto Development Zones in the Indonesian Borderlands” in Mona Chettri and Michael Eilenberg /(eds.) Asian Borderlands. Amsterdam University Press: Asian Borderlands Book Series.
Cons, J and Michael Eilenberg (2019) "On the New Politics of Margins in Asia: Mapping Frontier Assemblages" in Jason Cons and Michael Eilenberg (eds.) Frontier Assemblages. Wiley and Blackwell: Antipode Book Series.
Eilenberg, Michael and Jason Cons (2019) "Assembling the Frontier" in Jason Cons and Michael Eilenberg (eds.) Frontier Assemblages. Wiley and Blackwell: Antipode Book Series.
Eilenberg, Michael. (2018) "Frontier Constellations" in Alexander Horstmann, Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands. Routledge Handbook Series.
Eilenberg (2016) “A State of Fragmentation: Enacting Sovereignty and Citizenship at the Edge of the Indonesian State”. Development and Change, Vol. 47, (6): 1338-1360.
Eilenberg, Michael. (2016) “Nested Sovereignties: Autonomy and Authority in the Indonesian Borderlands” in Martin Rössler, Michaela Haug, Anna‐Teresa Grumblies (eds.) Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia: Transforming the Margins. Routledge - Contemporary Southeast Asia Series.
Eilenberg, Michael (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, Vol. 56 (1): 48-61.
Eilenberg, Michael; Saito-Jensen, Moeko; Sikor, Thomas and Kurniawa, Y. (2015) “Policy Options for Effective REDD+ Implementation in Indonesia: The significance of forest tenure reform”. International Forestry Review, Vol. 17 (1): 86-97.
Eilenberg, Michael (2014) “Frontier Constellations: Agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border”. Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 41(2): 157-182.
Eilenberg, Michael (2014) “Evading Colonial Authority - Rebels and Outlaws in Dutch West Borneo”. Journal of Borderland Studies, Vol. 29 (1): 11-25.
Eilenberg, Michael (2013) “Timber Entrepreneur, Cukong Kayu”, in Joshua Barker, Erik Harms and Johan Lindquist (eds.) Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity. University of Hawaii Press.
Eilenberg, Michael (2012) ”The Confession of a Timber Baron – Patterns of Patronage on the Indonesian-Malaysian border”. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Vol 9(2):149-167.
Eilenberg, Michael (2012) “Territorial sovereignty and trafficking in the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands”, in Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons and Willem van Schendel (eds.) Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia. London: Routledge - Contemporary Southeast Asia Series.
Eilenberg, Michael (2011) ”Flouting the Law: Vigilante justice and regional autonomy on the Indonesian border” Austrian Journal of South East Asian Studies, Vol. 4(2): 237-253.
Eilenberg, Michael (2011) “Straddling the Border: A Marginal History of Guerrilla Warfare and ‘Counter-Insurgency’. in the Indonesian Borderlands, 1960s-1970s”. Modern Asian Studies, Vol 45 (6): 1423–1463.
Eilenberg, Michael (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, Vol. 17(2): 201-227.
Eilenberg, Michael and R. L. Wadley (2009) “Borderland Livelihood Strategies: The Socio-economic Significance of Ethnicity in Cross-border Labour Migration West Kalimantan, Indonesia”. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol. 50(1):58-73.
Eilenberg, Michael (2008) ”Borderland Encounters: a Letter from Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan”. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Vol. 42(1): 191-200.
Wadley, R.L and Michael Eilenberg (2006) “Vigilantes and Gangsters in the Borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia”. In: Alexander Horstmann (ed.): State, Peoples and Borders in Southeast Asia. A special Issue of the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Vol. 7: 1-25. The paper is published in five languages - English, Indonesian, Thai, Filipino and Japanese
Eilenberg, Michael (2006) ”Grænsestrategier og Transnationale relationer". Nord Nytt – Nordisk Kulturtidsskrift for Etnologi & Folkloristic. Theme number on Transnationalism. Vol. 98: 21-40.
Eilenberg, Michael (2005) “Paradoxical Outcomes of National Schooling in the Borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia: The case of the Iban”. Borneo Research Bulletin, Vol. 36: 163-184.2
Wadley, R.L and Michael Eilenberg (2005) “Autonomy, Identity and ’Illegal’ Logging in the Borderlands of West Kalimantan, Indonesia”. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 6 (1): 19-34.
I am currently working on:
A book on biosecurity and fencing (with Annika Pohl Harrison)
A chapter about biopolitics and strategies of wild pig eradication (with Jason Cons)