Abstract

It gives me great pleasure to preside - as Editor-in-Chief - over the release of this new-look journal website. For first-time readers it might be apt, at this point, to provide a brief historical background to the origins of this journal. While there are several other on-line journals dealing with the phenomenological paradigm, they all essentially cater for European and American writers situated in their respective geographical spaces and therefore are largely concerned with European and American issues. By contrast, the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology aims to capture the works of phenomenologically-oriented social scientists in the Southern Hemisphere, although this is not intended to be exclusive