With editorial offices at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, The Contemporary Pacific covers a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region and the global Pacific diaspora. It features refereed, readable articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, literary, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section with interviews and short essays. Each issue highlights the work of one or more Pacific Islander artists.
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Current Issue Contents 36(1)
THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
ABOUT THE ARTISTS: THE VEIQIA PROJECT
EDITOR’S NOTE
ARTICLES
“Kaneka Is Our Reggae”: The Soundtrack of the Kanak Political Claim, Matteo Gallo
“Music Helps a West Papuan Feeling”: West Papuan Musicians Mobilizing Affect and Communitas in Melbourne, Sebastian Salay
Kalama: Oceanian Countercurrents of US Imperialism, Kenneth Gofigan Kuper, Kyle Kajihiro, Cameron Grimm, and Gitte du Plessis
OCEANIA IN REVIEW
Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023, Kisha Borja-Quichocho-Calvo, Guigone Camus, Zaldy Dandan, Kenneth Gofigan Kuper, Francine Naputi, Gonzaga Puas
Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023, T Melanie Puka Bean, Peter Clegg, Margaret Mutu, Lisepa Fianta Seve Paeniu, Salote Talagi, F Asi Talatini
BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS
The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu [documentary];
Kapaemahu, by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, and Daniel Sousa; and
The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu [exhibition]
Reviewed by Tatiana Kalani‘ōpua Young
The Healer and the Psychiatrist [documentary]
Reviewed by Patricia Fifita
Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristin Jones, and Matthew Spriggs
Reviewed by Jennifer G Kahn
The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands, by Pierre Maranda, James Tuita Dede, and Ben Burt
Reviewed by Joseph Daniel Foukona
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa, by Holger Droessler
Reviewed by David Cooper-Moussa
CONTRIBUTORS