ABSTRACT
The revival of political geography over the past decade is now a well-documented phenomenon. It is no longer the ‘moribund backwater’ to which Berry (1969) referred nor is it the ‘phoenix’ or ‘dead duck’ to which Muir (1976) drew attention. On the contrary, the emergence of Political Geography Quarterly, the publication of Political Studies from Spatial Perspectives (Burnett and Taylor 1981), of textbooks by Muir (1975), Muir and Paddison (1980), Taylor and Johnston (1979) and others, of a large number and variety of articles in a wide spectrum of journals (Kliot 1982) and a tentative programme for political geography (Political Geography Quarterly) point to a real and living bird in a healthy environment.
