interesting replies, folks we need a more updated version with Caribbean and Indian ocean colonies
Colonial maps are bad because they imply the colonial and imperialist relationships are a thing of the past. See! Britain and France and Spain no longer cover the entire globe! We're good now!
That's a cool idea, the top replies are just listing all of the resistance uprisings the first post missed. Maybe a series of maps, one for each century, showing all of the uprisings/anti colonial movements, going all the way up to modern day, is the way to do it.
maybe an interactive map (or just animated?) that progress through time?
i'm friends with some critical geographers and though they are mostly the kinds of geographers that don't make maps (they just shit on existing maps mostly, which is necessary but also lol), i have occasionally seen attempts at something decolonial. like indigenous peoples historical areas in the current US showing names for places in their languages (where available and can be expressed in a visual way) and approximate translations. they are, as always with the coolest maps, incomplete.
i read a cool line once somewhat recently that has stuck with me about how the real edges of maps are in the interior. i'm also reading a book called "How to Lie with Maps" which is about how maps can easily distort perception and common tricks that are used to imply beliefs. it cannot be overstated how much power there is in cartography, so obviously we should all be getting armed with this shit.
anyway, i love maps, so here's probably a collection of ones people around here might appreciate looking at: https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/
i did some GIS coursework and am a big QGIS nerd. not a talented one, but a big fan of looking at maps and making maps and thinking about maps.
