In the 1990s, the US poetry academy sought to create scholarship that represented diverse identities and appealed to public audiences. However, the poetry establishment misses a crucial opportunity to reconsider who might be said to count as a scholar, even as new forms of schol…
This thesis examines the evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping operations during the last decade of the twentieth century. To accomplish this, the author introduces peacekeeping from both theoretical and historic points of view to set the scene for the detailed examination of…
This study focused on Parliamentary oversight of international peacekeeping operations where Canadian Forces (CF) were represented in the 1990s. An examination of the activities of parliament in relation to defence matters from Confederation to the effective end of the Cold War …
A growing body of scholarship critically examines the importance of sexuality to both the historical Cold War and the contemporary War on Terror, but fewer scholars have paid attention to the decade in between these two era-defining conflicts. Focusing on news coverage in The Ne…
This dissertation examines experimental dance in New York City in the 1990s. Earlier periods of American concert dance have received significant scholarly attention to the historical, political, and aesthetic aspects of dance practice. Moreover, certain periods of modern dance —…
This thesis examines the ways in which the 1990s art practice of globally renowned artist Lee Bul (b. 1964) critically parodies the visual cultural legacies and collective memories of post-Korean war rapid development, authoritarian dictatorship, and nation-building. Using nontr…
This paper examines the history of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre during the 1980s and 1990s as a forum for the expression of a pan-Latinx identity. The paper draws on two different strands of evidence: plays that were produced and/or written during the period in question an…