Madeleine Hamlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 906820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madeleine Hamlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madeleine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamlin |
| SIGNATURE | HAMLIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9240-9679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Film Review
This review analyzes the recent documentary film “Raise the Roof: Building Tenant Power in Syracuse” (dir. Gretchen Purser), which follows the work of the nascent tenants union in Syracuse, New York. Through interviews with tenants, union organizers, and policy experts, the film capably narrates the housing challenges faced by Syracuse renters and effectively showcases the means by which the union is fighting back. As such, it makes a powerful to…
On property and policies of abandonment
What's Wrong with the Elevators”
In this paper, I argue that the high‐rise elevator comprises a particularly important and yet heretofore undertheorised space for understanding narratives about failure and breakdown in public housing in the US and beyond. Using Chicago as a case study, I draw upon historical newspaper articles and interviews with former public housing tenants, as well as interviews with former police officers who worked in public housing developments, to show ho…
Racialized policing as urban growth strategyPolicing the Racial Divide
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMadeleine HamlinMadeleine Hamlin is an urban scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at Colgate University. Her research examines the intersection of housing and carceral geographies in U.S. cities
Geography’s abolitionist turn
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of scholarship in abolition geography. But what does it mean to theorize abolition in geography and what do geographers bring to abolition? This paper seeks to theorize geography’s abolitionist turn, tracing its roots from Du Bois’ ideas of abolition democracy through to contemporary iterations and variations. In doing so, it offers property and the state as key analytics: property insofar as it undergirds carc…
Participatory Sketch Mapping for Policy
This article describes a qualitative research project that used sketch maps and individual interviews to involve formerly incarcerated people in the process of creating data and crafting policy recommendations related to reentry housing in Chicago, Illinois. It discusses the benefits as well as the limits of participation in this process and considers the merits of sketch mapping as a method for involving marginalized people in the process of pol…
Seeing like the shadow state
This article examines Blueprint 15, a planned neighborhood redevelopment and public housing transformation in Syracuse, NY. It argues that Blueprint 15 provides an ideal project through which we can interrogate the role of the philanthropic and non-profit sectors in urban governance in the twenty-first century in a way that attends to Peck’s (2004) call for attention to actually existing neoliberal cases. Analyzing Blueprint 15 confirms something…
Bodies in the Building”
In this article, we examine the experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals living in a brand-new reentry housing facility in Syracuse, New York, that we call “New Beginnings.” At this site, a select group of returning residents are placed in permanent supportive housing or shelter beds. In analyzing the experiences of residents, we borrow from Avery Gordon’s conception of “haunting” to explain the seething presence of the prison in a facili…
“A Program, Not the Projects”
Prisoner reentry is widely recognized as a hybrid project of poverty governance situated at the intersection of the welfare state and penal state. Numerous scholars have examined the devolved terrain and organizational dynamics of reentry services. Still others have emphasized the particular challenges and importance of housing to the reentry process. However, few have examined how reentry organizations secure or manage housing for their clients,…
Second chances in the second city
In November 2014, the Chicago Housing Authority approved a pilot program to allow a limited number of individuals with criminal records to live in their housing programs. In this article, I contend that the pilot provides an important opportunity to institutionally recognize and extend material benefits to formerly incarcerated individuals for whom housing is both especially difficult to secure and especially important to find. Drawing on Wacquan…
The politics of conceptualizing the carceral
This article responds to the call for debate opened by Moran et al.’s ‘Conceptualizing the Carceral in Carceral Geography,’ arguing that how geographers define the carceral has political implications for the work produced in this growing sub-field. While Moran et al. propose detriment, intent, and spatiality as three conditions of carcerality, this commentary instead suggests that geographers adopt Foucault’s metaphor of the carceral continuum as…
The politics of conceptualizing the carceral
This article responds to the call for debate opened by Moran et al.’s ‘Conceptualizing the Carceral in Carceral Geography,’ arguing that how geographers define the carceral has political implications for the work produced in this growing sub-field. While Moran et al. propose detriment, intent, and spatiality as three conditions of carcerality, this commentary instead suggests that geographers adopt Foucault’s metaphor of the carceral continuum as…
Geography’s abolitionist turn
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of scholarship in abolition geography. But what does it mean to theorize abolition in geography and what do geographers bring to abolition? This paper seeks to theorize geography’s abolitionist turn, tracing its roots from Du Bois’ ideas of abolition democracy through to contemporary iterations and variations. In doing so, it offers property and the state as key analytics: property insofar as it undergirds carc…
Second chances in the second city
In November 2014, the Chicago Housing Authority approved a pilot program to allow a limited number of individuals with criminal records to live in their housing programs. In this article, I contend that the pilot provides an important opportunity to institutionally recognize and extend material benefits to formerly incarcerated individuals for whom housing is both especially difficult to secure and especially important to find. Drawing on Wacquan…
Bodies in the Building”
In this article, we examine the experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals living in a brand-new reentry housing facility in Syracuse, New York, that we call “New Beginnings.” At this site, a select group of returning residents are placed in permanent supportive housing or shelter beds. In analyzing the experiences of residents, we borrow from Avery Gordon’s conception of “haunting” to explain the seething presence of the prison in a facili…
Seeing like the shadow state
This article examines Blueprint 15, a planned neighborhood redevelopment and public housing transformation in Syracuse, NY. It argues that Blueprint 15 provides an ideal project through which we can interrogate the role of the philanthropic and non-profit sectors in urban governance in the twenty-first century in a way that attends to Peck’s (2004) call for attention to actually existing neoliberal cases. Analyzing Blueprint 15 confirms something…
What's Wrong with the Elevators”
In this paper, I argue that the high‐rise elevator comprises a particularly important and yet heretofore undertheorised space for understanding narratives about failure and breakdown in public housing in the US and beyond. Using Chicago as a case study, I draw upon historical newspaper articles and interviews with former public housing tenants, as well as interviews with former police officers who worked in public housing developments, to show ho…
The politics of conceptualizing the carceral
This article responds to the call for debate opened by Moran et al.’s ‘Conceptualizing the Carceral in Carceral Geography,’ arguing that how geographers define the carceral has political implications for the work produced in this growing sub-field. While Moran et al. propose detriment, intent, and spatiality as three conditions of carcerality, this commentary instead suggests that geographers adopt Foucault’s metaphor of the carceral continuum as…
Second chances in the second city
In November 2014, the Chicago Housing Authority approved a pilot program to allow a limited number of individuals with criminal records to live in their housing programs. In this article, I contend that the pilot provides an important opportunity to institutionally recognize and extend material benefits to formerly incarcerated individuals for whom housing is both especially difficult to secure and especially important to find. Drawing on Wacquan…
“A Program, Not the Projects”
Prisoner reentry is widely recognized as a hybrid project of poverty governance situated at the intersection of the welfare state and penal state. Numerous scholars have examined the devolved terrain and organizational dynamics of reentry services. Still others have emphasized the particular challenges and importance of housing to the reentry process. However, few have examined how reentry organizations secure or manage housing for their clients,…
Participatory Sketch Mapping for Policy
This article describes a qualitative research project that used sketch maps and individual interviews to involve formerly incarcerated people in the process of creating data and crafting policy recommendations related to reentry housing in Chicago, Illinois. It discusses the benefits as well as the limits of participation in this process and considers the merits of sketch mapping as a method for involving marginalized people in the process of pol…
Seeing like the shadow state
This article examines Blueprint 15, a planned neighborhood redevelopment and public housing transformation in Syracuse, NY. It argues that Blueprint 15 provides an ideal project through which we can interrogate the role of the philanthropic and non-profit sectors in urban governance in the twenty-first century in a way that attends to Peck’s (2004) call for attention to actually existing neoliberal cases. Analyzing Blueprint 15 confirms something…
Bodies in the Building”
In this article, we examine the experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals living in a brand-new reentry housing facility in Syracuse, New York, that we call “New Beginnings.” At this site, a select group of returning residents are placed in permanent supportive housing or shelter beds. In analyzing the experiences of residents, we borrow from Avery Gordon’s conception of “haunting” to explain the seething presence of the prison in a facili…
Racialized policing as urban growth strategyPolicing the Racial Divide
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMadeleine HamlinMadeleine Hamlin is an urban scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at Colgate University. Her research examines the intersection of housing and carceral geographies in U.S. cities
Geography’s abolitionist turn
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of scholarship in abolition geography. But what does it mean to theorize abolition in geography and what do geographers bring to abolition? This paper seeks to theorize geography’s abolitionist turn, tracing its roots from Du Bois’ ideas of abolition democracy through to contemporary iterations and variations. In doing so, it offers property and the state as key analytics: property insofar as it undergirds carc…
On property and policies of abandonment
What's Wrong with the Elevators”
In this paper, I argue that the high‐rise elevator comprises a particularly important and yet heretofore undertheorised space for understanding narratives about failure and breakdown in public housing in the US and beyond. Using Chicago as a case study, I draw upon historical newspaper articles and interviews with former public housing tenants, as well as interviews with former police officers who worked in public housing developments, to show ho…
Film Review
This review analyzes the recent documentary film “Raise the Roof: Building Tenant Power in Syracuse” (dir. Gretchen Purser), which follows the work of the nascent tenants union in Syracuse, New York. Through interviews with tenants, union organizers, and policy experts, the film capably narrates the housing challenges faced by Syracuse renters and effectively showcases the means by which the union is fighting back. As such, it makes a powerful to…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works)