We’re kicking off 2023 with a new issue! #TCP_34_2, featuring artwork by Yuki Kihara, is now available via @ProjectMUSE. Spot anything new and exciting on the cover? Check out the full issue to learn more at https://t.co/VatADTCuCV.

TCP 34-1 also includes two timely dialogue pieces! The first is titled, "Pacific Island Pride: How We Navigate Australia," from Dion Enari and Lorayma Taula. #TCP_34_1 Read the piece here:

In "'We Are So Happy EPF Came': Transformations of Gender in Port Moresby Schools," Ceridwen Spark and Martha Macintyre analyze Equal Playing Field, an organization that introduces gender equity to students in schools in Port Moresby, PNG #TCP_34_1

Ryan Schram's "The Compensation Page: News Narratives of Public Kinship in Papua New Guinea Print Journalism," explores how news narratives provide a metaphor for the contact between liberal and relational social orders. #TCP_34_1 Read more at ProjectMuse:

Christen T. Sasaki's "Making Sartorial Sense of Empire: Contested Meanings of Aloha Shirt Aesthetics," engages with attire in popular imagination through an analysis of different uses of aloha wear and how these meanings and uses are contested. #TCP_34_1 https://t.co/CPOmWpIQzl

look to Bonnie Etherington's "One Salt Water: The Storied Work of Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Imagining with West Papua." #TCP_34_1

For an analysis of poems from a special issue of Hawai‘i Review "Wansolwara" alongside two dance short stories as Indigenous solidarity with West Papua

We’ll be previewing 34-1’s contents over the coming weeks, beginning with the four research articles, moving on to the two Dialogue essays, as well as closing out with the political and book and media reviews. Stay tuned! #TCP_34_1

#TCP_34_1 features art by @nalaniwilson, a global citizen of Kanaka Maoli ancestry dedicated to raising awareness about decolonisation and critical, innovative and transformative Pacific and Indigenous futurities. On the cover is "Hālāwai" (2021; watercolor on paper 50 x 60 cm)

We’re kicking off our summer with an exciting new issue, TCP 34-1! Join us over the next few weeks as we highlight the art, articles, authors, and more! Find it @ProjectMUSE: https://t.co/ea1IGmCbwg. #TCP_34_1

In case you missed it, today we're highlighting our Fall 2021 special issue, "Schooling Journeys in the Southwestern Pacific," guest edited by David Oakeshott, Rachel Emerine Hicks, and Debra McDougall. Find it @ProjectMUSE: https://t.co/9vL2VjV7Xh #TCP_33_2

Today we join others around the world in reflecting on the life and scholarly contributions of Brij Vilash Lal, Emeritus Professor of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. Read our full statement at

Looking forward to the #SweatAndSaltWater launch next week by our sister publication @PIMS_CPIS! Did you know that Dr Teresia Teaiwa's “bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans” was first published in The Contemporary Pacific 6-1?

Save the date! Join us Monday, 13 Dec 2021 at 1 pm HST for the virtual launch of Sweat and Salt Water: Selected Works, a collection of Teresia Teaiwa’s influential pieces. Register at https://t.co/GRd00sZeQk #SweatAndSaltWater #PIMS30 @UHPRESSNEWS

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TCP 33-1 also features political reviews for entities in Micronesia and Polynesia, as well as book and media reviews of exciting content that spans monographs, edited volumes, art exhibitions, and documentary films. #TCP_33_1

For a look into the response of the New Zealand government to military coups in Fiji in the context of rugby, check out Greg Ryan's "Smart Sanctions, Hollow Gestures, and Multilateral Sport: New Zealand–Fiji Relations and the Politics of Professional Rugby, 1987–2011." #TCP_33_1

In "Gesturing to the Past: The Case for an Ethnography of Melanesian Poetics," Deborah Van Heekeren explores the loss of poetics in the language of the Vula‘a people of southeastern Papua New Guinea, in particular the relationship between language loss and knowledge loss.

In “'Keeping an Eye Out for Women': Implicit Feminism, Political Leadership, and Social Change in the Pacific Islands," Ceridwen Spark, John Cox, and Jack Corbett draw on interviews to describe how senior women politicians practice a form of “quiet” or “implicit” feminism.

Check out Talei Luscia Mangioni's "Confronting Australian Apathy: Latai Taumoepeau and Politics of Performance in Climate Stewardship," for a discussion of the power of diasporic Pacific arts to engage the Australian public in the environmental concerns of Oceania. #TCP_33_1