Maria Kirpichenko
Dragvoll 1, Bygg 1 - 6 Dragvoll, Trondheim
About
My current research is situated within the interdisciplinary PLUME project, where I investigate the relationships between scientific knowledge production and environmental governance. Focusing on Trondheimsfjorden, I examine how environmental models are constructed through interdisciplinary practices of observation, measurement, data integration and translation, and how these practices shape what becomes knowable about the fjord. I explore how models make particular environmental conditions and possible futures visible and actionable, and how they acquire relevance in policy and decision-making. Conversely, I investigate how governance priorities, institutional arrangements and societal concerns feed back into scientific knowledge production, influencing what is monitored, modelled and considered relevant for environmental intervention.
My previous research addressed regulation and use of assisted reproductive technologies with a particular focus on transnational commercial surrogacy. I explored how nationally bounded legal categories may fail to capture reproductive arrangements that cross jurisdictions, and how the legal definition and treatment of surrogacy are politically contingent and shaped by nationalist biopolitics.
Methodologically, I work primarily with qualitative and ethnographic approaches.
Research
Publications
2025
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2025)
Structuring Surrogacy through “Choice” on the Websites of Russia-based Surrogacy Agencies.
Women's Studies in Communication
Academic article
2024
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2024)
Review of Siegl, Veronika. Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth.
H-Diplo - H-Net Reviews in Humanities and Social Sciences
Academic literature review
2023
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2023)
Representing 'Russian surrogacy'. A conceptual exploration.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
2022
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Weis, Christina;
Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2022)
The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Russian fertility industry.
eBioNews
Academic article
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2022)
Russisk surrogati og den moralske panikken rundt «enslige menn».
Nordisk Østforum
Academic article
2021
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Stuvøy, Ingvill;
Kirpichenko, Maria;
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes;
Lie, Merete;
Moratti, Sofia.
(2021)
Bioteknologiske framtider. Refleksjoner over endringene i bioteknologiloven fra et kjønnsforskningsperspektiv.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
2020
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2020)
Ideology of simulation: The material-semiotic production of the surrogate in the web worldings of Russian surrogacy.
The European Journal of Women's Studies
Academic article
2017
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2017)
Russian Legislative Practices and Debates on the Restriction of Wide Access to ART.
Non-fiction chapter
Journal publications
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2020)
Ideology of simulation: The material-semiotic production of the surrogate in the web worldings of Russian surrogacy.
The European Journal of Women's Studies
Academic article
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Weis, Christina;
Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2022)
The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Russian fertility industry.
eBioNews
Academic article
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2024)
Review of Siegl, Veronika. Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth.
H-Diplo - H-Net Reviews in Humanities and Social Sciences
Academic literature review
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2025)
Structuring Surrogacy through “Choice” on the Websites of Russia-based Surrogacy Agencies.
Women's Studies in Communication
Academic article
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2022)
Russisk surrogati og den moralske panikken rundt «enslige menn».
Nordisk Østforum
Academic article
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Stuvøy, Ingvill;
Kirpichenko, Maria;
Kristensen, Guro Korsnes;
Lie, Merete;
Moratti, Sofia.
(2021)
Bioteknologiske framtider. Refleksjoner over endringene i bioteknologiloven fra et kjønnsforskningsperspektiv.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2017)
Russian Legislative Practices and Debates on the Restriction of Wide Access to ART.
Non-fiction chapter
Student thesis or dissertation
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Kirpichenko, Maria.
(2023)
Representing 'Russian surrogacy'. A conceptual exploration.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Outreach
2024
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Feature articleKirpichenko, Maria; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2024) Russlands nylig vedtatte forbud mot å promotere barnløshet.
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LectureKristensen, Guro Korsnes; Kirpichenko, Maria. (2024) Decreased fertility and increased involuntary childlessness: A seed funding project. NTNU Health and Life Science Annual pre-Christmas seminar
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LectureKristensen, Guro Korsnes; Kirpichenko, Maria; Moratti, Sofia. (2024) Reproduction and biopolitics: Activities and Grant applications. EcoRepro Network meeting
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InterviewKirpichenko, Maria; Moratti, Sofia. (2024) The Emergence of Feminist Technoscience in the Nordics: Interview with Cecilia Åsberg.
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Conference lectureKirpichenko, Maria; Moratti, Sofia. (2024) New Materialisms. The GST Colloquia – Concepts, Theories, Paradigms
2023
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Conference lecture
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Conference lectureKirpichenko, Maria. (2023) Russian surrogacy and the moral panics around ‘single men’. KjønnsforskningNÅ! 2023
2022
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LectureKirpichenko, Maria; Weis, Christina. (2022) "Traditional family values" and the looming ban on Russian transnational surrogacy "for everybody". Reproductive Futures: Emergent Injustices, Hopes and Paradoxes. An international conference
2021
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Conference lecture
2020
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Conference lectureKirpichenko, Maria. (2020) Procedures of establishing parenthood for lesbian couples and transpersons in Norway. Sosiologiforeningens Vinterseminar 2020
2019
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Conference lectureKirpichenko, Maria. (2019) Websites of surrogacy agencies as an apparatus of bodily production: Matters of response and accountability. Resistance is fertile: Reproduction, Politics and Resistance’ conference, a stream on Reproduction and Digital Media
2018
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Conference lectureKirpichenko, Maria. (2018) Becoming simulacrum. Surrogate’s body in the web articulations of surrogacy in Russia. Remaking Reproduction. The Global Politics of Reproductive Technologies
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Conference lectureKirpichenko, Maria. (2018) Web Articulations of Surrogacy in Russia. Visual Cultural Studies seminar for PhDs
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Conference lectureKirpichenko, Maria. (2018) Transnational surrogacy from the web: a case of Russia. Kjønnsforskerstafett på Kvinnedagen
2017
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Conference lectureKirpichenko, Maria. (2017) What is the Problem Represented to Be? Russian Legislative Practices and Debates on the Restriction of Wide Access to ARTs. Age, Agency, Ambiguity - Gender and Generation in Times of Change