ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of the ways in which the European project is made present today and, specifically, on the politics and geopolitics of its representation. The European project is in an uncertain state. Intimations of the 'weakness' of the European project have not only come from within, however, nor have they only concentrated on the failings of Europe's self-definition. The chapter begins its analysis by assessing the political uses of constructing European uncertainty as a 'problem' for Europe: first, as regards the process of European integration, and second, a propos Europe's role in the world. It then spatialize these arguments, remarking upon their implicit geographical imaginations: the highly normative and normalizing assumptions regarding territory, sovereignty and identity and the necessary relations between these same. Finally, the chapter argues that such geographical imaginations miss the potential of Europe's 'uncertainty', they ignore the perhaps 'quiet' but truly revolutionary geopolitical transformations taking shape within, at, and well beyond Europe's boundaries.
