Publications
BOOKS
Hamlin, Madeleine. Coming Spring 2027. Policing the Project: How Policing Weakened Public Housing and Transformed Chicago. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Hamlin, Madeleine and Carlos Delclós (eds). 2026. Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity. Oakland, CA: PM Press. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1949.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2023. “‘What’s Wrong with the Elevators’: From Breakdown to Policing in Chicago Public Housing.” Antipode. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12978.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2023. “Geography’s Abolitionist Turn: Notes on Freedom, Property, and the State.” Progress in Human Geography. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03091325231194657.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2022. “A City Within Itself: Altgeld Gardens and Public Housing’s Utopia.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/jucs/2022/00000009/00000001/art00002;jsessionid=1edabhjt3tyz9.x-ic-live-02.
Purser, Gretchen and Madeleine Hamlin. 2022. “‘Bodies in the Building’: Incarceration’s Afterlife in a Reentry Housing Facility.” Social Service Review. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/719858.
Hamlin, Madeleine and Patrick Oberle. 2022. “Seeing Like the Shadow State: Philanthropy, Memory, and Public Housing Redevelopment in Syracuse, NY.” Urban Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2054624.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2021. “Participatory Sketch Mapping for Social Policy: A Case Study of Reentry Housing from Chicago.” The Professional Geographer. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00330124.2021.1952883.
Hamlin, Madeleine and Gretchen Purser. 2021. “‘A Program, Not the Projects’: Reentry in the Post-Public Housing Era.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/UHNTCBPWV4CAIHQZCPGP/full.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2020. “Second Chances in the Second City: Public Housing and Prisoner Reentry in Chicago.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263775820918274.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2016. “Geographies of Mobility in James Joyce’s Dubliners.” Literary Geographies 2(2): 128-143. http://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/view/43.
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2024. Book Review Forum: “On Property and Policies of Abandonment [Review of The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit]. Dialogues in Urban Research, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/27541258241230063.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2023. Book Review: “Racialized Policing as Urban Growth Strategy [Review of Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation]. City, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2023.2194156.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2022. Book Review: “Policing Welfare: Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance,” Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. https://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/policing-welfare-punitive-adversarialism-in-public-assistance/#.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2019. Book Review: “Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression,” Antipode, https://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/book-review_hamlin-on-bhattacharya.pdf.
Hamlin, Madeleine and Jessie Speer. 2017. “The Politics of Conceptualizing the Carceral: A Commentary on Moran et al (2017).” Progress in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517716997.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Hamlin, Madeleine with Invisible Institute. 2024. “Policing Chicago Public Housing.” Story map. Viewable here: https://madeleinehamlin.github.io/PolicingCHA/.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2022. “End of Public Housing Is Not Something to Celebrate.” Syracuse Post-Standard. January 20, 2022. https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2022/01/end-of-public-housing-is-not-something-to-celebrate-guest-opinion-by-madeleine-hamlin.html.
Edwards, Earl, Madeleine Hamlin, Ferananda Jahn-Varri, Joel Montano, and Deyanira Nevarez Martinez. 2020. “Reparative Records.” In Methodologies for Housing Justice Resource Guide, edited by Ananya Roy, Raquel Rolnik, Terra Graziani, and Hilary Malson, pp. 78-87. Los Angeles: Institute on Inequality and Democracy. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41g6f5cj.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2020. “The Abolition Geographies of COVID-19.” Society + Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-abolition-geographies-of-covid-19. (#8 most-read piece on the site in 2020)
Hamlin, Madeleine and Tyrone Muhammad. 2019. “From the Big House to No House: A Critical Geography of Reentry Housing in Chicago.” Society + Space. http://societyandspace.org/2019/05/15/from-the-big-house-to-no-house-a-critical-geography-of-reentry-housing-in-chicago/.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2018. “No Place to Call Home: Navigating Reentry Housing in Chicago.” Roosevelt University & BPI. https://www.bpichicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/No-Place-To-Call-Home.pdf.
Hamlin, Madeleine. 2017. “In Chicago, Another Public Housing Experiment: Prisoner Reentry.” CityLab. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/08/in-chicago-another-public-housing-experiment-prisoner-reentry/535947/.