CPIS Publications

The Contemporary Pacific

The Contemporary Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Journal is 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. Issues also highlight the work of Pacific Islander artists.

Copublished by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the University of Hawai‘i Press (UHP), the journal follows the UHP Journals Department ethical guidelines.

View the latest edition of TCP here.

Recent Editions of The Contemporary Pacific

Pacific Islands Monograph Series

The Pacific Islands Monograph Series (PIMS), launched in 1983, publishes scholarly works in the humanities and social sciences. The PIMS Editorial Board encourages submissions that address issues of concern beyond a single discipline. It is especially committed to promoting works by emerging and Indigenous scholars. In addition to the five volumes in its sister series, South Sea Books, the Center’s award winning PIMS continues to meet national and international needs for high quality scholarly works about the region.

The series produces, on average, one book a year. Thirty one titles have appeared in the series. Recent volumes include:

PIMS 31: My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire by Professor Siobhan McDonnell (ANU).
PIMS 30: Sweat and Salt Water: Selected Works by Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa (VUW), compiled and edited by Katerina Teaiwa (ANU), April K. Henderson (VUW), and Terence Wesley-Smith (UHM).
PIMS 29: God Is Samoan (2020) by Professor Matt Tomlinson (ANU)

Pacific Islands Report

Since 1997, the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) at the East-West Center compiled a range of news items from around the Pacific Islands region and published them online as the Pacific Islands Report (PIR). Launched in collaboration with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, this resource was one of the most widely used news sites on the Pacific Islands until daily production was suspended in 2017 due to financial constraints.

Prior to 2017, government representatives, scholars, and the general public from around the world used the Pacific Islands Report archive as a comprehensive resource for information about political events, economic developments, and social issues that have defined the Pacific region in the twenty-first century.

PIDP is in the process of creating a searchable archive of 20 years’ worth of Pacific Islands Report articles, commentary, and reports. In the meantime, visitors are welcome to explore a limited set of archived pages on our Archive page.

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