The Contemporary Pacific

Infobox Journal


discipline = Pacific studies
abbreviation = "TCP"
frequency = semiannual
website = http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp/
publisher = University of Hawaii Press
country = USA
history = 1989 to present
ISSN = 1043-898X
eISSN = 1527-9464

"The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs" is an academic journal covering a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It features refereed, readable articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section with interviews and short essays. Each recent issue highlights the work of a Pacific Islander artist.

The journal was founded at the University of Hawaiokinai Center for Pacific Islands Studies under the directorship of Robert C. Kiste, with then-CPIS faculty member Brij Lal serving as editor of volumes 1-4. The historian David Hanlon edited volumes 5-10, the anthropologist Geoffrey M. White edited volumes 11-13, the playwright Vilsoni Hereniko edited volumes 14-20, and the political scientist Terence Wesley-Smith will edit current volumes. The journal continues to be edited at the UH Center for Pacific Islands Studies and published by the University of Hawaiokinai Press. CPIS also edits and UH Press publishes the related Pacific Islands Monograph Series.

From volume 15 (2003), the journal began featuring the work of a different Pacific Islander artist on the cover and inside each issue. Among the artists featured so far are John Pule of Niue, Kapulani Landgraf of Hawaiokinai, Rongotai Lomas of New Zealand, Ake Lianga of the Solomon Islands, Meleanna Aluli Meyer of Hawaiokinai, Ric R Castro of Guam, Albert Wendt of Samoa, Larry Santana of Papua New Guinea, Shigeyuki Kihara of New Zealand, Ralph Regenvanu of Vanuatu, Carl Franklin Kaokinaailāokinaau Pao of Hawaiokinai, and Jewel Castro of Samoa.

"The Contemporary Pacific" appears semiannually. Its first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on Project MUSE.

External links

* Sponsor homepage: http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/
* Publisher homepage: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp/
* MUSE homepage: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cp/
* Pacific Islands Monograph Series http://uhpress.wordpress.com/books-in-series/pacific-islands-monograph-series/