Description
Book SynopsisThis book outlines the characteristics and implications of a potential geography of uncertainty. In doing so, it analyses this concept in reference to both the origins of uncertainty in Early Modern Age and the current geopolitical situation.
The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to uncertainty, drawing on global perspectives and literature to define its meanings and characteristics. In order to develop a thorough and precise understanding of the geography of uncertainty, a broad perspective is adopted, which includes other forms of knowledge in which the concept of uncertainty is firmly established. As such the book creates temporal links, that may occasionally be far off from one another, to present a geographical perspective of uncertainty. It provides an interpretation of the phenomenon of globalization in a new way, relating it to the first European openness to global spaces, the Early Modern Age, and identifying the transition from the medieval world to the Moder
Table of Contents
Preface, by Franco Farinelli
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 – For a definition of uncertainty
Chapter 2 – The society of uncertainty
Chapter 3 – Early Modern European political geography and uncertainty
Chapter 4 – The "Mad Flight" and the geography of uncertainty
Chapter 5 – Cartographic secularization
Chapter 6 – The tragedy of cartography in the Modern Age
Chapter 7 – Conclusion: uncertainty as a Paradigm of Modern Times
Bibliography
Index
