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The article explores how bureaucratic practices destabilize territorial archives and challenge fixed notions of property and planning.

Missing maps and elastic eligibility: Archival securitization and retrospective arbitrage in Saigon and Mumbai

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This article examines archival revision in urban governance, highlighting practices that affect territory and population categories.

The article explores how bureaucratic practices destabilize territorial archives and challenge fixed notions of property and planning.
Analyzes case studies from Ho Chi Minh City and Mumbai
Examines the disappearance of a planning map and recalibration of eligibility lists
Discusses techniques of rule emerging from bureaucratic processes
Identifies archival revisions as a common practice in urban governance
Argues that these practices create elastic territorial and population categories
Highlights the implications for understanding urban authority beyond traditional corruption frameworks

Kim et al. (2026) studied this question.

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