ABSTRACT In May 2018, Ho Chi Minh City officials declared that they had lost the original planning maps to the city’s most important urban development project. The case of the missing maps revealed core tensions about urban planning in the city, galvanized popular resistance to city planning authorities, and prompted a series of investigations into government misdeeds. While it is common to criticize maps as artifacts of state power, this case shows how citizens can reappropriate the meaning of maps and transform them into a form of quasi-legal evidence that demands accountability and responsiveness from state officials in a non-democratic single party state. The transformative entanglement of maps and people, however, works reciprocally – just as social groups can transform the meaning of maps, maps also participate in the transformation of social groups. The concept of “cartographic action” seeks to account for the entangled relationship among maps, political life, and social action.

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丢失地图的案例：胡志明市的制图行动

摘要 2018 年 5 月，胡志明市官员宣布，他们丢失了该市最重要的城市发展项目的原始规划图。丢失地图的案例揭示了该市城市规划的核心紧张局势，激起了民众对城市规划当局的抵制，并引发了对政府不当行为的一系列调查。虽然批评地图是国家权力的产物是很常见的，但这个案例展示了公民如何重新利用地图的含义并将其转化为一种准法律证据的形式，要求非民主的单一政党中的国家官员承担责任并做出回应状态。然而，地图和人的变革性纠缠是相互影响的——就像社会群体可以改变地图的意义一样，地图也参与了社会群体的转变。“制图行动”的概念试图解释地图、政治生活和社会行动之间的纠缠关系。