Center for Pacific Island Studies

publications

the contemporary pacific

The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs provides a publication venue for interdisciplinary work in Pacific studies with the aim of providing informed discussion of contemporary issues in the Pacific Islands region. It features refereed articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, cultural, and literary topics. This award-winning journal also includes political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section that allows flexible publication of diverse genres of writing, including interviews and short essays. Each issue highlights the work of a Pacific Islander artist. The Contemporary Pacific has its own editorial board, and an international board of correspondents who advise on editorial matters and generally further the aims of the journal.

Special Issues

Occasional special issues focus on a particular current issue or series of events, sometimes under guest editorship. Seven have appeared to date: the Fiji Coups (2:1, 1990); the crisis in Bougainville (4:2, 1992); logging in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu (9:1, 1997); migrant labor and tourism in Palau (12:2, 2000); Native Pacific cultural studies (13:2, 2001); decolonizing Pacific studies (15:1, 2003); and mining in Melanesia (18:2, 2006). Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge (13:2) is available as a free download on the journal's UH Press Web site.

Submissions

Submissions must be original works not previously published and not under consideration or scheduled for publication by another publisher. See recent issues for examples of the range of approaches and topics addressed. Manuscripts should be 8,000 to 10,000 words, or no more than 40 double-spaced pages, including references. Entire manuscript, including references and notes if any, should be double-spaced; 1-inch margins on all sides; left margin justified and right margin “ragged” (not justified); all pages numbered. Editorial style follows the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed, 2003), and spelling follows Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed, 2003). Please see also the TCP Manuscript Preparation and Style Guide. For further information about submissions, contact the journal editor, Vilsoni Hereniko, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 212, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822; telephone (808) 956-2658; fax (808) 956-7053; e-mail uhtcp@hawaii.edu.

Subscriptions and Online Access

To subscribe to The Contemporary Pacific, contact the Marketing Department, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2840 Kolowalu St., Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822; telephone (808) 956-8697; fax (808) 988-6052; toll-free in the United States/Canada only, telephone (800) 956-2840 or fax (800) 650-7811; e-mail uhpjourn@hawaii.edu.

The Contemporary Pacific (from volume 12 [2000]–present) is also available to members of subscribing institutions via the Project MUSE database of journals in the humanities and social sciences. The University of Hawai‘i Press Journals Department Web site provides tables of contents for all issues since 1995, with article abstracts and the full text of book and media reviews, as well as information for contributors and subscribers. Political reviews for the current issue are posted on the Pacific Islands Report Web site.