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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 35(1&2)
ARTICLES
Toward Cognitive Justice: Reconstructions of Climate Finance Governance in Fiji, Kirsty Anantharajah and Sereima Volivoli Naisilisili
Marshallese Women and Oral Traditions: Navigating a Future for Pacific History, Monica C LaBriola
“It Will Be Like a Town Here, Things Are Really Coming Up!”: Inequality in Village-Based Cruise Ship Tourism in the Trobriand Islands, Michelle MacCarthy
DIALOGUE
Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of “Our Ocean,” Craig Santos Perez
Our Islands, Our Refuge: Response to Craig Santos Perez’s “Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of ‘Our Ocean,’” Theresa (Isa) Arriola
Moana Nui Rising: A Response to “Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of ‘Our Ocean,’” Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu
OCEANIA IN REVIEW
Oceania in Review Editor’s Note, Lorenz Gonschor
The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2022, Nic Maclellan
Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2022, Volker Boege, Mathias Chauchat, Rui Graça Feijó, Joseph Daniel Foukona, Budi Hernawan, James Stiefvater, and Jope Tarai
Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022, Kisha Borja-Quichocho-Calvo, Guigone Camus, Zaldy Dandan, Kenneth Gofigan Kuper, Gonzaga Puas, and Herman Semes Jr
Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022, Brian T Alofaituli, T Melanie Puka Bean, Peter Clegg, Mililani Ganivet, Margaret Mutu, Christina Newport, Lisepa Paeniu, ‘Umi Perkins, and Forrest Wade Young
BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS
Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific, by Diana Looser
Reviewed by Kalissa Alexeyeff
Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures, edited by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, and Craig Santos Perez
Reviewed by Mylast E Bilimon
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, by Sophie Chao
Reviewed by Jamon Halkavsz
The Indigénat and France’s Empire in New Caledonia: Origins, Practices and Legacies, by Isabelle Merle and Adrian Muckle
Reviewed by David Chappell
Cartooning History: Lai’s Fiji and the Misadventures of the Scrawny Black Cat [exhibition]
Reviewed by Ariela Zibiah
Leveling Wind: Remembering Fiji, by Brij V Lal
Reviewed by Tarisi Vunidilo
Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences, by Jessica A Schwartz
Reviewed by Aanchal Saraf
Navigating CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization, by Craig Santos Perez
Reviewed by Monique C Storie
Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam, by Christine Taitano DeLisle
Reviewed by Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas
CHamoru Legends: A Gathering of Stories / Lihenden CHamoru: Rinikohen Hemplo Siha, by Teresita Lourdes Perez
Reviewed by Arielle Taitano Lowe
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai‘i, by Candace Fujikane
Reviewed by Drew Kapp
Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora, by Makiko Nishitani
Reviewed by David Lipset