http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/829c701780a5fa30 https://verfassungsblog.de/correct-the-map-resolution/ Correcting the Map, as We Must, and Yet Still Eslava, Luis eng 2026-09-10 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Collective Memory Global Justice Historical Injustices historical memory International Law Memory proportional representation Representation UN General Assembly Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 4 September 2026, 164 UN Member States adopted the African-led “Correct the Map” Resolution which seeks to change the Mercator map – the world’s most widely used map – and encourages governments, schools, international organisations and technology companies to use more equal-area representations of the world instead, such as Equal Earth. Correcting the map is a matter of justice: recognising and contesting inherited ways of seeing, while cultivating other ways of seeing and inhabiting a world in which those inheritances, like empire itself, refuse to disappear.