{"id":2090,"date":"2015-12-09T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?page_id=2090"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:26","slug":"current-student-research-jacob-forrest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/current-student-research-jacob-forrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Student Research &#8211; Jacob Forrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Current Student Research &#8211; Jacob Forrest\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<div data-canvas-width=\"775.6599999999997\">\n<p>Jacob is from Ottawa and completed his B.A. (Honours) in History at Carleton University. He is broadly interested in the relationships among state power, standardization, and the production of administrative space. Work on his undergraduate honours thesis led him to an interest in how taken-for-granted economic concepts and administrative practices become embedded in the state regulation of housing issues. The commitment of the Institute of Political Economy to interdisciplinary scholarship and debate about power in modern society drew Jacob to the M.A. program.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob is currently working on a Master\u2019s thesis, entitled \u201cBureaucratizing House-building in Postwar Canada: Political Geographies of the National Building Code,\u201d which examines how state and industrial actors scaled house-building into an object of \u201cnational\u201d surveillance through the circulation of construction standards. Jacob\u2019s project is being supervised by <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/pablo-mendez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Pablo Mendez<\/a> in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. Jacob is also working with Dr. Mendez as a research assistant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob is from Ottawa and completed his B.A. (Honours) in History at Carleton University. He is broadly interested in the relationships among state power, standardization, and the production of administrative space. Work on his undergraduate honours thesis led him to an interest in how taken-for-granted economic concepts and administrative practices become embedded in the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[117],"class_list":["post-2090","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}