{"id":3171,"date":"2018-10-15T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=3171"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:50","slug":"kyla-piccin","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/kyla-piccin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyla Piccin"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Before beginning your studies at the Institute of Political Economy where did you study and what program(s) were you enrolled in?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I studied International Development Studies with an emphasis in Law and Policy at Trent University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is it specifically that attracted you to study Political Economy at Carleton?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was initially drawn to the interdisciplinary nature of the program. I looked forward to the opportunity to pursue my various interests within the discipline&nbsp;while maintaining a strong base in political economy as a holistic framework of analysis. Additionally, I was drawn to the intimacy of the program. I value the one-on-one support that we are afforded throughout the process and the many opportunities to build community with my professors and peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My areas of research interest include\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anti-colonial feminist studies and the affective dimensions of state violence, particularly related to policing, surveillance, incarceration and migrant detention in settler-colonial contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What activities have you been involved in lately?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of my favourite books I\u2019ve read this year include, <em>Emergent Strategy<\/em> by Adrienne Maree Brown, <em>When They Call You A Terrorist<\/em> by Patrice Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele, and <em>All About Love<\/em> by Bell Hooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What advice would you give to a prospective Political Economy graduate student?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Keep focused on your end goal, but be easy on yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3172,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Kyla","cu_people_last_name":"Piccin","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[91],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-3171","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-2021-grad"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Anti-colonial feminist studies, policing, surveillance, incarceration and migrant detention in settler-colonial contexts","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"kylapiccin@cmail.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}