About Terese Gagnon

Terese Gagnon is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, focused on “The Politics of Climate and Environment in Asia.” She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Syracuse University. Her research examines Karen food, seed, and political sovereignty across homelands and diaspora. Her writing has appeared in Ethnography, Anthropology and Humanism, Ethnobiology Letters, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding and other journals and volumes. She is co-editor of the book Moveable Gardens: Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory from the University of Arizona Press (2021). Her ethnography has been recognized with the Christine Wilson Award from the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (2020), and by the New York Conference on Asian Studies (graduate paper prize runner-up 2021). She incorporates creative forms in her scholarly work and has been a recipient of a prize for ethnographic poetry from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (2013).

NBN Episodes hosted by Terese:

The Promise of Multispecies Justice

April 21, 2023

The Promise of Multispecies Justice

Sophie Chao, Karin Bolender, and Eben Kirksey
Hosted by Terese Gagnon

How might we imagine justice in times of ecological harm? How are human struggles for social justice entangled with the lives of other beings includin…

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?

November 11, 2022

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?

Kyaw Zeyar Win
Hosted by Terese Gagnon

In March 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in Myan…

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots

October 7, 2022

U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots

Kyaw Zeyar Win
Hosted by Terese Gagnon

In March of 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in M…

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)

June 20, 2022

Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson
Hosted by Terese Gagnon

What is the relationship between Spirit Possession Rituals and Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia? How has modernity transformed Spirit Possession …

What Remains: Textiles from Tuol Sleng

April 22, 2022

What Remains: Textiles from Tuol Sleng

Magali-An Berthon
Hosted by Terese Gagnon

What can textiles tell us about histories of genocide and the lived experiences of prisoners? In this episode, Dr. Magali-An Berthon discusses the tr…

Excluded from Society and Rights: The Experiences of Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border

March 11, 2022

Excluded from Society and Rights

Hayso Thako
Hosted by Terese Gagnon

Southeastern Myanmar (Burma). The Myanmar military has carried out arial attacks on villages: targeting schools, libraries, and villagers’ agricultura…

Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)

November 5, 2021

The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance

Bertil Lintner
Hosted by Terese Gagnon

Who are the Wa of Myanmar and how, in three decades, have they built a force that is now the largest non-state military actor in Asia-Pacific? How doe…