Foreword by Claude Raffestin
Introduction
Part I: Orientation/disorientation
1. Orientation/disorientation in physical space
2. (Dis)orienting oneself in thinking
3. Philosophies of disorientation
Part II: Lost subjects
4. It doesn't matter which way you go: the lived body and disorientation
5. "On the origin of certain instincts"
6. Different spatial abilities
Part III: The labyrinth of the world: places of disorientation
7. Labyrinths
8. The city: a labyrinth where you are never lost
9. Lost in an unfrequented wilderness
10. Lost in cyberspace and art
Epilogue
Biography
Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg is Professor of Geography at the ‘Riccardo Massa’ Department of Human Sciences and Education at the University of Milano–Bicocca, Italy. Her research interests include cultural geography, island studies, gender geography, and the history of geographical thought. She is a member of the Editorial Board of ACME and Chair of the IGU Commission on the History of Geography.
