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| Spring 36(1) 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 Talatin 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 Featured Artist: The Veiqia Project  Reconnecting (detail), by Joana Monolagi, 2016. ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland. Photo by Sangeeta Singh, courtesy of the Veiqia Project. In 2015, a group of Fijian women based in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia came together in a collaborative effort to create an exhibition inspired by veiqia—Fijian female tattooing, a tradition carried out to mark a young woman’s journey through adolescence. …The artists of the Veiqia Project are on a mission to revitalize this ancient art form and safeguard its associated knowledge and history. … This issue of The Contemporary Pacific features six of the artists who have contributed significantly to the project: Joana Monolagi, Margaret Aull, Donita Vatuinaruku Hulme, Dulcie Stewart, Yasbelle Kerkow, and Luisa Tora. | Fall 36(2) Articles There’s No Such Place as “Away”: Flawed Metaphors of Waste Disposal for Criminal Deportation to the Pacific Islands Henrietta McNeill and Arthur Williamson Navigating Secularism: Pacific Communities, Intersectional Identities, and the New Zealand State Jake Searell and Philip Fountain Oceania in Review The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2023 Nic Maclellan Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2023 Mathias Chauchat, Rui Graça Feijó, Budi Hernawan, Tony Hiriasia, and James Stiefvater Book and Media Reviews Mata Austronesia: Stories from an Ocean World. An (Ethno)graphic Novel, by Tuki Drake Reviewed by Michelle Keown Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i, by Christen T Sasaki Reviewed by Kealani Cook Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru, by Julia Caroline Morris Reviewed by Stewart Firth Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel, and the Reimagining of History, by Ryota Nishino Reviewed by Greg Dvorak Featured Artist: Edith Amituanai  Isaac with a Dandelion on White Sunday (2011), by Edith Amituanai. Photo courtesy of the artist. Edith Amituanai is a New Zealand–born Samoan photographer working from Tāmaki Makaurau. From interiors to driveways to communities, Amituanai’s practice is concerned with environments that shape who we are. |
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