A Journal of Island Affairs
With editorial offices at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies,
The Contemporary Pacific covers 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 issue highlights the work of a Pacific Islander artist.
CPIS also publishes the highly regarded
Pacific Islands Monograph Series distributed by UH Press. Also available for free download:
Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge.
Subscription rates are discounted for residents of Pacific Islands outside Hawai‘i, Australia, or New Zealand.
Articles appearing in
The Contemporary Pacific are indexed and/or abstracted in:
Book Review Index, Current Military & Political Literature, CAB International, Current Contents, Hawai‘i Pacific Journal Index, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Current Awareness Services, Research Alert, Social Sciences Citation Index, Sociological Abstracts
The Contemporary Pacific (E-ISSN: 1527-9464) is available in the
Project MUSE electronic database of journals in the humanities and social sciences. For more details, email
muse@muse.jhu.edu or visit
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cp/.
Back issues of
The Contemporary Pacific are now freely available in the
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Library's
ScholarSpace digital repository. To navigate among the earliest articles, visit the
Online Index to vols. 1-10.