ABSTRACT
There has been an increasing awareness in recent years of the importance of ‘the political dimension’ in human geography research. This has produced two distinct trends; (i) existing fields of enquiry have become more political in nature and (ii) there has been a large growth in the traditional field of political geography. Hence we are all familiar with the fact that urban, economic and social geography now incorporate political themes into their subject matter at the same time that political geography itself is said to be experiencing a renaissance. While these alternative arrangements for accommodating the newly perceived importance of the political into human geography are themselves a fascinating topic, producing as it were political Geographers and Political Geographers, I will limit my consideration to the latter in this paper.
