Svitlana Matviyenko

Expertise:

disinformation & critical media analysis
media & environment
science & technology studies
cyberwar
nuclear terror
Chornobyl & nuclear heritage
Russo-Ukrainian war

Bio:

Svitlana Matviyenko is an Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research, informed by science and technology studies and the history of science, focuses on practices of disinformation, cyberwar, popular mobilization, critical infrastructure studies, psychoanalysis of Lacan, postcolonial and decolonial theory. Matviyenko’s current work is on nuclear cultures and heritage, nuclear colonialism, technogenic catastrophes, and – most recently – the weaponization of pollution and practices of nuclear terror during the Russian war in Ukraine and in broader geopolitical contexts. She is an expert on political economy and cultural logics of cyberwarfare; political ecology of war and the environmental history of warfare.

Matviyenko is the co-editor of The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is also the co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), which received the 2019 book award from the Science, Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) section of the International Studies Association and the 2020 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association.