In this Issue
The Contemporary Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Journal 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.
Sponsor: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
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Volume 28, Number 1, 2016Editorial Board
Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies
Terence Wesley-Smith, University of Hawai‘i
Editorial Board
Editor
Terence Wesley-Smith, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Associate Editor
Alexander Mawyer, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Political Reviews Editors
David W Kupferman, Division of Education, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
Book and Media Reviews Editor
A Marata Tamaira, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Arts Editor
Moana Nepia, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Resources Editor
Stuart Dawrs, Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai‘i
Managing Editor
Jan Rensel, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Members
Maenette Kapeahi‘okalani Padekin Ah-Nee Benham, Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawai‘i
Gerard Finin, Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center
Ben Finney, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i
David Hanlon, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i
Mary Hattori, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Vilsoni Hereniko, Academy for Creative Media, University of Hawai‘i
Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Robert C Kiste, Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center
Scott Kroeker, Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center
Davianna McGregor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Lola Quan Bautista, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Noenoe Silva, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i
Julianne Walsh, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Correspondents
Keith Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Vicente M Diaz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
Stewart Firth, The Australian National University
Sitiveni Halapua, Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center
Hilda Heine, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, Majuro, Marshall Islands
Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen, Norway
Brij V Lal, The Australian National University
Nic Maclellan, Independent Researcher, Brunswick, Australia
Cluny Macpherson, Massey University at Albany, New Zealand
Selina Tusitala Marsh, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mac Marshall, University of Iowa, United States
Mālama Meleiseā, National University of Samoa
Margaret Mutu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Margaret Critchlow Rodman, University of York, Canada
Donald H Rubinstein, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam
Jacob Simet, National Cultural Commission, Papua New Guinea
Katerina Teaiwa, The Australian National University
Konai Helu Thaman, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Eric Waddell, Université Laval, Québec, Canada