Alessandro Ricci is Assistant Professor of Political Geography at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His research interests concern Early Modern globalization and political geography; historical and political cartography; the connections between art, maps and power; and the Netherlands during the Golden Age. In 2018, he received the "Carmelo Colamonico" award from Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for "scientific writings in geography". In 2014, he obtained a European Label PhD degree cum laude in "Culture and Territory" at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where he has been a researcher and attended courses in political cartography and geopolitics. He carried out research activities at the University of Trento and Amsterdam. He is one of the managers of the Think tank "Geopolitica.info".

This 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 as well as the current geopolitical situation.

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