Volume 35

2023 35(1&2)

TCP cover featuring a block print of four latte. One latte, blue, is foregrounded in the center, with the other three latte, two red and one blue, behind to its left and right and a large circular motif with concentric rings of yellow and black, red and white, and yellow, red, and black centered just above.
Spring & Fall 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 

Featured Artist: Monica Dolores Baza
Block print of a coastal scene, featuring sprouting coconut seeds and coconut palm trees on the beach, vaka with their sails unfurled in the ocean, and the sun shining brightly behind a low mountain.

The Rebirth of Guåhan Oceania (2016), by Monica Dolores Baza

Monica Dolores Baza is of CHamoru and French-Canadian heritage and has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Concordia University in Montreal. Her designs, drawings, paintings, and linoleum block prints are inspired by CHamoru material, visual, symbolic, and storytelling culture and the island environment of Guåhan (Guam). Baza was influenced by role models such as Filamore Palomo Alcon and Adriano Baza Pangelinan and credits her growth as an artist to participating in gatherings filled with robust discussions and constructive criticism of art practice and theory. She was one of nine founding members of the Chamorro Artists Association in 1987 and established Baza Designs that same year. In 1994 she collaborated with four others to found the Guam Gallery of Art. In 1995 Baza and her sister incorporated the expanding design business specializing in art cards, bags, T-shirts, and fine art.