Nina Potarska is Director of the Center for Social and Labor Research (Kyiv–Ottawa). Her work is situated at the intersection of feminist political economy and critical security studies, examining war, social reproduction, and state transformation in Ukraine. Drawing on qualitative field research and narrative analysis, she explores how labour, care infrastructures, and everyday survival practices shape post-war reconstruction and security imaginaries. Her research engages debates on human-centred security, democratic recovery, and the political economy of rebuilding in conflict-affected societies.