Gerard Sasges
Biographic Data
| ID | 1060174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard Sasges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard |
| FAMILY NAME | Sasges |
| SIGNATURE | SASGES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4881-716X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cold War Asia
This innovative, interdisciplinary and international collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on the history of global diplomacy. Experts in history, international relations, art history and performance art have come together to examine a series of visual sources relating to Asia's role in global diplomacy during the Cold War. They explore how leaders, including Indonesia's Sukarno, the Philippines' Imelda Marcos and Thailand's King Bhumibo…
Constructing Hydrosocialism while Fighting the Cold War
On the morning of 10 June 1972 just before 10:00 AM, a flight of four U.S. F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers approached their target, the Thác Bà hydroelectric facility 65 kilometers northwest of Hanoi, which at the time provided three-quarters of the total electricity consumption of the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). Minutes later, each of the planes dropped its payload: a single laser-guided bomb. The bombs scored direct hits o…
Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century
On Contested Territory
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Mold’s Dominion
Today, Jōkichi Takamine and Albert Calmette are known for their contribution to the history of medicine. Yet their early careers centered not on medicine, but on biotechnology, and on parallel projects to bring a food processing technology used across Asia to new audiences around the world. In the end, they both succeeded, but in very different ways. Takamine would make his fortune with “Taka-Diastase,” a patent digestive aid once popular around …
Acceleration in a time of war
On the eve of its foundation in 1954, the Republic of Vietnam had five motorised fishing boats; 20 years later, that figure had swelled to over sixty thousand. This conversion to fossil fuels, along with associated developments like the intensified exploitation of marine ecologies and the use of new synthetic materials, form part of what has come to be called the ‘Great Acceleration’. This article follows a Japanese fisheries expert who spent six…
Hard at Work
Imperial Intoxication
Making liquor isn't rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that's really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned factories, widespread clandestine distilling was the inevitable result. The state's deeply unpopular alcohol monopoly required extensive systems of surveillance a…
Drunken poets and new women
This article uses the lens of alcohol as a means of exploring the experiences and anxieties of Vietnamese ‘colonial modernity’ and the way it was mutually constituted with ‘colonial tradition’. The production, consumption, and meaning of alcohol in Vietnam were all profoundly altered as the state's contested attempts to control the market for rice liquor interacted with the growing availability of imports like wine, champagne, and cognac. While t…
Absent Maps, Marine Science, and the Reimagination of the South China Sea, 1922-1939
Today, seven nations have maritime or island claims in the disputed South China Sea. This article historicizes the claims of one of the dispute's participants, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It argues that cartographic representations of its territory have their origin in the period of French rule, and locates a key moment in the formation of an Indochinese-and later Vietnamese-space encompassing the South China Sea in a series of four maps t…
It's a Living
Scaling the Commanding Heights
By the late 1800s the colonial state's increasing capacity to regulate, finance, and tax had begun to open up new opportunities for locally based French enterprises in Indochina. Chinese syndicates that had previously dominated the economy found themselves deprived of existing revenue streams and denied access to new ones. The result was an 'Indochinese moment' when a handful of colonial conglomerates used profits from state contracts, monopolies…
State, enterprise and the alcohol monopoly in colonial Vietnam
The state-administered monopoly on the production of distilled rice alcohol instituted in Vietnam after 1897 evolved into one of the colony's most pervasive and unpopular institutions. This article examines the origins and operations of the monopoly, focusing on how much revenue it generated and for whom. It reveals that the monopoly generated little net revenue for the state, and instead functioned to promote the creation of a centralised and os…
Competing Legacies
Vietnam today is less in a process of transition from ‘plan’ to ‘market’ than in a process of state consolidation with clear parallels in the colonial period. The authors focus on four aspects of Vietnamese political economy under the colonial and post-colonial regimes: the interpenetration of state and enterprise through state-created monopolies; the interaction of regional and ethnic dynamics with the monopolies; the ‘illegal’ activities (smugg…
Indigenous Representation is Hostile to All Monopolies
Prominent supporters of the French colonial regime like the journalist, translator, and politician Phạm Quỳnh have been difficult to integrate within Vietnamese historiography since 1945. This article examines Phạm Quỳnh's constitutional project and his successful campaign to prevent the extension of the state's much-hated monopoly on the production of alcohol as a means to explore what collaboration meant for Phạm Quỳnh and others like him, who …
Scaling the Commanding Heights
By the late 1800s the colonial state's increasing capacity to regulate, finance, and tax had begun to open up new opportunities for locally based French enterprises in Indochina. Chinese syndicates that had previously dominated the economy found themselves deprived of existing revenue streams and denied access to new ones. The result was an 'Indochinese moment' when a handful of colonial conglomerates used profits from state contracts, monopolies…
Imperial Intoxication
Making liquor isn't rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that's really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned factories, widespread clandestine distilling was the inevitable result. The state's deeply unpopular alcohol monopoly required extensive systems of surveillance a…
Indigenous Representation is Hostile to All Monopolies
Prominent supporters of the French colonial regime like the journalist, translator, and politician Phạm Quỳnh have been difficult to integrate within Vietnamese historiography since 1945. This article examines Phạm Quỳnh's constitutional project and his successful campaign to prevent the extension of the state's much-hated monopoly on the production of alcohol as a means to explore what collaboration meant for Phạm Quỳnh and others like him, who …
Drunken poets and new women
This article uses the lens of alcohol as a means of exploring the experiences and anxieties of Vietnamese ‘colonial modernity’ and the way it was mutually constituted with ‘colonial tradition’. The production, consumption, and meaning of alcohol in Vietnam were all profoundly altered as the state's contested attempts to control the market for rice liquor interacted with the growing availability of imports like wine, champagne, and cognac. While t…
Absent Maps, Marine Science, and the Reimagination of the South China Sea, 1922-1939
Today, seven nations have maritime or island claims in the disputed South China Sea. This article historicizes the claims of one of the dispute's participants, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It argues that cartographic representations of its territory have their origin in the period of French rule, and locates a key moment in the formation of an Indochinese-and later Vietnamese-space encompassing the South China Sea in a series of four maps t…
It's a Living
Competing Legacies
Vietnam today is less in a process of transition from ‘plan’ to ‘market’ than in a process of state consolidation with clear parallels in the colonial period. The authors focus on four aspects of Vietnamese political economy under the colonial and post-colonial regimes: the interpenetration of state and enterprise through state-created monopolies; the interaction of regional and ethnic dynamics with the monopolies; the ‘illegal’ activities (smugg…
Indigenous Representation is Hostile to All Monopolies
Prominent supporters of the French colonial regime like the journalist, translator, and politician Phạm Quỳnh have been difficult to integrate within Vietnamese historiography since 1945. This article examines Phạm Quỳnh's constitutional project and his successful campaign to prevent the extension of the state's much-hated monopoly on the production of alcohol as a means to explore what collaboration meant for Phạm Quỳnh and others like him, who …
State, enterprise and the alcohol monopoly in colonial Vietnam
The state-administered monopoly on the production of distilled rice alcohol instituted in Vietnam after 1897 evolved into one of the colony's most pervasive and unpopular institutions. This article examines the origins and operations of the monopoly, focusing on how much revenue it generated and for whom. It reveals that the monopoly generated little net revenue for the state, and instead functioned to promote the creation of a centralised and os…
Competing Legacies
Vietnam today is less in a process of transition from ‘plan’ to ‘market’ than in a process of state consolidation with clear parallels in the colonial period. The authors focus on four aspects of Vietnamese political economy under the colonial and post-colonial regimes: the interpenetration of state and enterprise through state-created monopolies; the interaction of regional and ethnic dynamics with the monopolies; the ‘illegal’ activities (smugg…
It's a Living
Scaling the Commanding Heights
By the late 1800s the colonial state's increasing capacity to regulate, finance, and tax had begun to open up new opportunities for locally based French enterprises in Indochina. Chinese syndicates that had previously dominated the economy found themselves deprived of existing revenue streams and denied access to new ones. The result was an 'Indochinese moment' when a handful of colonial conglomerates used profits from state contracts, monopolies…
Absent Maps, Marine Science, and the Reimagination of the South China Sea, 1922-1939
Today, seven nations have maritime or island claims in the disputed South China Sea. This article historicizes the claims of one of the dispute's participants, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It argues that cartographic representations of its territory have their origin in the period of French rule, and locates a key moment in the formation of an Indochinese-and later Vietnamese-space encompassing the South China Sea in a series of four maps t…
Drunken poets and new women
This article uses the lens of alcohol as a means of exploring the experiences and anxieties of Vietnamese ‘colonial modernity’ and the way it was mutually constituted with ‘colonial tradition’. The production, consumption, and meaning of alcohol in Vietnam were all profoundly altered as the state's contested attempts to control the market for rice liquor interacted with the growing availability of imports like wine, champagne, and cognac. While t…
Imperial Intoxication
Making liquor isn't rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that's really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned factories, widespread clandestine distilling was the inevitable result. The state's deeply unpopular alcohol monopoly required extensive systems of surveillance a…
Acceleration in a time of war
On the eve of its foundation in 1954, the Republic of Vietnam had five motorised fishing boats; 20 years later, that figure had swelled to over sixty thousand. This conversion to fossil fuels, along with associated developments like the intensified exploitation of marine ecologies and the use of new synthetic materials, form part of what has come to be called the ‘Great Acceleration’. This article follows a Japanese fisheries expert who spent six…
Hard at Work
Mold’s Dominion
Today, Jōkichi Takamine and Albert Calmette are known for their contribution to the history of medicine. Yet their early careers centered not on medicine, but on biotechnology, and on parallel projects to bring a food processing technology used across Asia to new audiences around the world. In the end, they both succeeded, but in very different ways. Takamine would make his fortune with “Taka-Diastase,” a patent digestive aid once popular around …
On Contested Territory
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century
Cold War Asia
This innovative, interdisciplinary and international collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on the history of global diplomacy. Experts in history, international relations, art history and performance art have come together to examine a series of visual sources relating to Asia's role in global diplomacy during the Cold War. They explore how leaders, including Indonesia's Sukarno, the Philippines' Imelda Marcos and Thailand's King Bhumibo…
Constructing Hydrosocialism while Fighting the Cold War
On the morning of 10 June 1972 just before 10:00 AM, a flight of four U.S. F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers approached their target, the Thác Bà hydroelectric facility 65 kilometers northwest of Hanoi, which at the time provided three-quarters of the total electricity consumption of the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). Minutes later, each of the planes dropped its payload: a single laser-guided bomb. The bombs scored direct hits o…
Political science (12 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (12 works) · History (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Colonialism (8 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economy (5 works)