nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/829c701780a5fa30 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260910s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/829c701780a5fa30 doi eng 342 23 Eslava, Luis Author aut Correcting the Map, as We Must, and Yet Still Eslava, Luis Verfassungsblog 2026-09-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Collective Memory Global Justice Historical Injustices historical memory International Law Memory proportional representation Representation UN General Assembly Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/correct-the-map-resolution/ raw object