Thi Gammon
Biographic Data
| ID | 361838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thi Gammon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thi |
| FAMILY NAME | Gammon |
| SIGNATURE | GAMMON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8897-3218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Film Review: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell , directed by Phạm Thiên Ân
Too black to be The Little Mermaid ? Backlash against Disney’s 2023 The Little Mermaid – continuity of racism, white skin preference and hate content in Vietnam
When it was released globally and in Vietnam in May 2023, the live-action Disney movie The Little Mermaid was met with strong backlash online and boycotting in the Southeast Asian country.Negative reactions against the movie due to the casting of Halle Bailey, a Black actress for the titular role, a mermaid and princess of the ocean named Ariel, showed concerning signs of racism and sexism that stem from a preference for white skin and an emphasi…
Hate content and gendered shaming in Vietnamese social media: The case study of Trấn Thành
Few Vietnamese showbiz artists have enjoyed the same success as Trấn Thành, an entertainer with a thriving career in television and filmmaking. One of the most popular Vietnamese artists, Trấn Thành has also endured immense hate. In March 2023, at a press meeting, Trấn Thành bemoaned with tears the misery of being a high-profile figure, insisting that ‘being an artist is much more difficult than you may think’. Rather than garnering sympathy, how…
Popular queerness on Vietnamese prime-time television: Gender Ambiguity, Compliance and Compromises
The past two decades have seen a boom of queer media in many Asian countries, and Vietnam is not outside of this wave. This article examines the queer representations of three entertainers featured in three recent popular Vietnamese reality shows: Gil Lê in Sisters Who Make Waves, BB Trần in Brothers Defeat Thousands of Obstacles, and Pháp Kiều in Brothers Say Hi!. These entertainers serve as fascinating case studies for exploring what this paper…
Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Same-Sex Experience? A Case Study of Veiled Silence in a Research Relationship through Reflexive and Autoethnographic Lens
Research into intimate details of human life can be challenging for the parties involved. This article is a case study of a research situation in which I, as an interviewer, failed to elicit information from a male Vietnamese interviewee who evaded discussing specific details of his romantic life. I argue that this situation—the man’s avoidance of sharing details of his feelings toward people of the same sex and my discomfort in facing his avoida…
Reproduction propaganda: The state hails, citizens responds—A case study of Vietnamese governmental Facebook
Since the turn of the 21st century, aging populations and low fertility rates have alarmed governments across Europe and East Asia. The Communist state of Vietnam is now experiencing the same situation. The government has recently started a propaganda campaign to encourage its citizens to not postpone marriage and having children. This article explores one recent attempt—a viral post published on the government's Facebook page in November 2023 ur…
Foreign but familiar: Hallyu spaces and K-culture in urban Hanoi, a walking and participant observation study
For over two decades, South Korean pop culture has occupied the Vietnamese' cultural lives as it has conquered numerous other markets, giving rise to the global cultural phenomenon of the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. While Hallyu has spread across Vietnam, businesses serving made-in-Korea or (mimicking) "Korean-style" products and services have also developed in many of its cities, including the capital, Hanoi. Tracing the "Hallyu spaces" which such b…
Resistance to a gender threat: A case-study analysis of Vietnamese viewers' unfavourable reception of soft masculinities in romantic Korean television dramas
Over the past two decades, global media audiences have witnessed the development of a phenomenon known as Pan-East Asian soft masculinities, present in Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, and South Korean pop culture. This construction, characterised by male entertainers' effeminate appearance and personality traits, has seen both celebration and backlash worldwide and attracted scholarly attention. Contributing to such literature, this article feature…
Strategic Remembering in Vietnam-US Relations: How a Monument of War Turns Into a Marker of Peace
On October 26, 1967, John McCain (1936-2018), the naval aviator who later became a US Senator from Arizona was shot down while flying over Hanoi, Vietnam. McCain then became a war prisoner for five and a half years until his release in March 1973. Where McCain was captured became the site of a memorial, depicting a soldier kneeling with two arms raised in surrender. Originally intended to celebrate the Vietnamese victory, the memorial later turne…
Film Review: Em và Trịnh [Trịnh and His Muses]
Review| August 01 2023 Film Review: Em và Trịnh [Trịnh and His Muses] Thi Gammon Thi Gammon Thi Gammon works as a lecturer at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. Her recent research has been published in the Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Asian Studies Review, and Sexuality & Culture. Gammon’s work focuses on contemporary Vietnamese society and culture, especially g…
Isn’t It a Bit Rough?’ – Vietnamese Audience Reception of Wrist-grabbing in Korean Television Dramas, Feminist Consciousness, and Fantasy
Over the past two decades, Korean television drama (K-drama), which stands at the forefront of the Korean Wave, the popularisation of South Korean pop culture worldwide, has raised controversy over male characters’ sexist and patriarchal behaviours. At the centre of such controversy is the trope of wrist-grabbing, characterised by a man’s attempt to grasp a woman’s wrist to drag her to another place and force a conversation. Previous studies abou…
Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self
In the 21st century Korean television dramas (K-dramas) have featured prominently in the Vietnamese menu of mass cultural consumption as part of Hallyu – the global popularisation of South Korean cultural products. Grounded in Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘technologies of the self’, which conceptualises humans’ use of various means to achieve personal ambitions, this article discusses how Vietnamese working-class men use K-dramas in their construc…
"I'd Have Divorced My Husband If Not for Korean Dramas" - Vietnamese Women's Consumption of Television Romance and Melancholia
Drawing on the Freudian concept of melancholia and David L. Eng and Shinhee Han’s contemporary approach to the concept, this article discusses how Vietnamese married women consume romantic South Korean television dramas as a means to deal with unacknowledged and unresolved loss, or the psychic condition of melancholia. Through a case study of melancholia in a female research participant and a discussion of Vietnamese women’s marital lives, the ar…
Making sense of discomfort: The performance of masculinity and (counter-)transference
This article features a case study about the author’s two research encounters with an emotionally reluctant male participant who seemed to experience discomfort and who also made the author feel uncomfortable. To make sense of this mutual experience of discomfort, the article explores the intersubjective exchange between the interviewer and her participant through the application of the psychoanalytic concepts of ‘defence’ and ‘(counter-)transfer…
Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self
In the 21st century Korean television dramas (K-dramas) have featured prominently in the Vietnamese menu of mass cultural consumption as part of Hallyu – the global popularisation of South Korean cultural products. Grounded in Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘technologies of the self’, which conceptualises humans’ use of various means to achieve personal ambitions, this article discusses how Vietnamese working-class men use K-dramas in their construc…
Isn’t It a Bit Rough?’ – Vietnamese Audience Reception of Wrist-grabbing in Korean Television Dramas, Feminist Consciousness, and Fantasy
Over the past two decades, Korean television drama (K-drama), which stands at the forefront of the Korean Wave, the popularisation of South Korean pop culture worldwide, has raised controversy over male characters’ sexist and patriarchal behaviours. At the centre of such controversy is the trope of wrist-grabbing, characterised by a man’s attempt to grasp a woman’s wrist to drag her to another place and force a conversation. Previous studies abou…
Reproduction propaganda: The state hails, citizens responds—A case study of Vietnamese governmental Facebook
Since the turn of the 21st century, aging populations and low fertility rates have alarmed governments across Europe and East Asia. The Communist state of Vietnam is now experiencing the same situation. The government has recently started a propaganda campaign to encourage its citizens to not postpone marriage and having children. This article explores one recent attempt—a viral post published on the government's Facebook page in November 2023 ur…
Resistance to a gender threat: A case-study analysis of Vietnamese viewers' unfavourable reception of soft masculinities in romantic Korean television dramas
Over the past two decades, global media audiences have witnessed the development of a phenomenon known as Pan-East Asian soft masculinities, present in Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, and South Korean pop culture. This construction, characterised by male entertainers' effeminate appearance and personality traits, has seen both celebration and backlash worldwide and attracted scholarly attention. Contributing to such literature, this article feature…
Making sense of discomfort: The performance of masculinity and (counter-)transference
This article features a case study about the author’s two research encounters with an emotionally reluctant male participant who seemed to experience discomfort and who also made the author feel uncomfortable. To make sense of this mutual experience of discomfort, the article explores the intersubjective exchange between the interviewer and her participant through the application of the psychoanalytic concepts of ‘defence’ and ‘(counter-)transfer…
Too black to be The Little Mermaid ? Backlash against Disney’s 2023 The Little Mermaid – continuity of racism, white skin preference and hate content in Vietnam
When it was released globally and in Vietnam in May 2023, the live-action Disney movie The Little Mermaid was met with strong backlash online and boycotting in the Southeast Asian country.Negative reactions against the movie due to the casting of Halle Bailey, a Black actress for the titular role, a mermaid and princess of the ocean named Ariel, showed concerning signs of racism and sexism that stem from a preference for white skin and an emphasi…
Popular queerness on Vietnamese prime-time television: Gender Ambiguity, Compliance and Compromises
The past two decades have seen a boom of queer media in many Asian countries, and Vietnam is not outside of this wave. This article examines the queer representations of three entertainers featured in three recent popular Vietnamese reality shows: Gil Lê in Sisters Who Make Waves, BB Trần in Brothers Defeat Thousands of Obstacles, and Pháp Kiều in Brothers Say Hi!. These entertainers serve as fascinating case studies for exploring what this paper…
Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Same-Sex Experience? A Case Study of Veiled Silence in a Research Relationship through Reflexive and Autoethnographic Lens
Research into intimate details of human life can be challenging for the parties involved. This article is a case study of a research situation in which I, as an interviewer, failed to elicit information from a male Vietnamese interviewee who evaded discussing specific details of his romantic life. I argue that this situation—the man’s avoidance of sharing details of his feelings toward people of the same sex and my discomfort in facing his avoida…
"I'd Have Divorced My Husband If Not for Korean Dramas" - Vietnamese Women's Consumption of Television Romance and Melancholia
Drawing on the Freudian concept of melancholia and David L. Eng and Shinhee Han’s contemporary approach to the concept, this article discusses how Vietnamese married women consume romantic South Korean television dramas as a means to deal with unacknowledged and unresolved loss, or the psychic condition of melancholia. Through a case study of melancholia in a female research participant and a discussion of Vietnamese women’s marital lives, the ar…
Making sense of discomfort: The performance of masculinity and (counter-)transference
This article features a case study about the author’s two research encounters with an emotionally reluctant male participant who seemed to experience discomfort and who also made the author feel uncomfortable. To make sense of this mutual experience of discomfort, the article explores the intersubjective exchange between the interviewer and her participant through the application of the psychoanalytic concepts of ‘defence’ and ‘(counter-)transfer…
Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self
In the 21st century Korean television dramas (K-dramas) have featured prominently in the Vietnamese menu of mass cultural consumption as part of Hallyu – the global popularisation of South Korean cultural products. Grounded in Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘technologies of the self’, which conceptualises humans’ use of various means to achieve personal ambitions, this article discusses how Vietnamese working-class men use K-dramas in their construc…
"I'd Have Divorced My Husband If Not for Korean Dramas" - Vietnamese Women's Consumption of Television Romance and Melancholia
Drawing on the Freudian concept of melancholia and David L. Eng and Shinhee Han’s contemporary approach to the concept, this article discusses how Vietnamese married women consume romantic South Korean television dramas as a means to deal with unacknowledged and unresolved loss, or the psychic condition of melancholia. Through a case study of melancholia in a female research participant and a discussion of Vietnamese women’s marital lives, the ar…
Film Review: Em và Trịnh [Trịnh and His Muses]
Review| August 01 2023 Film Review: Em và Trịnh [Trịnh and His Muses] Thi Gammon Thi Gammon Thi Gammon works as a lecturer at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. Her recent research has been published in the Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Asian Studies Review, and Sexuality & Culture. Gammon’s work focuses on contemporary Vietnamese society and culture, especially g…
Isn’t It a Bit Rough?’ – Vietnamese Audience Reception of Wrist-grabbing in Korean Television Dramas, Feminist Consciousness, and Fantasy
Over the past two decades, Korean television drama (K-drama), which stands at the forefront of the Korean Wave, the popularisation of South Korean pop culture worldwide, has raised controversy over male characters’ sexist and patriarchal behaviours. At the centre of such controversy is the trope of wrist-grabbing, characterised by a man’s attempt to grasp a woman’s wrist to drag her to another place and force a conversation. Previous studies abou…
Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Same-Sex Experience? A Case Study of Veiled Silence in a Research Relationship through Reflexive and Autoethnographic Lens
Research into intimate details of human life can be challenging for the parties involved. This article is a case study of a research situation in which I, as an interviewer, failed to elicit information from a male Vietnamese interviewee who evaded discussing specific details of his romantic life. I argue that this situation—the man’s avoidance of sharing details of his feelings toward people of the same sex and my discomfort in facing his avoida…
Reproduction propaganda: The state hails, citizens responds—A case study of Vietnamese governmental Facebook
Since the turn of the 21st century, aging populations and low fertility rates have alarmed governments across Europe and East Asia. The Communist state of Vietnam is now experiencing the same situation. The government has recently started a propaganda campaign to encourage its citizens to not postpone marriage and having children. This article explores one recent attempt—a viral post published on the government's Facebook page in November 2023 ur…
Foreign but familiar: Hallyu spaces and K-culture in urban Hanoi, a walking and participant observation study
For over two decades, South Korean pop culture has occupied the Vietnamese' cultural lives as it has conquered numerous other markets, giving rise to the global cultural phenomenon of the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. While Hallyu has spread across Vietnam, businesses serving made-in-Korea or (mimicking) "Korean-style" products and services have also developed in many of its cities, including the capital, Hanoi. Tracing the "Hallyu spaces" which such b…
Resistance to a gender threat: A case-study analysis of Vietnamese viewers' unfavourable reception of soft masculinities in romantic Korean television dramas
Over the past two decades, global media audiences have witnessed the development of a phenomenon known as Pan-East Asian soft masculinities, present in Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, and South Korean pop culture. This construction, characterised by male entertainers' effeminate appearance and personality traits, has seen both celebration and backlash worldwide and attracted scholarly attention. Contributing to such literature, this article feature…
Strategic Remembering in Vietnam-US Relations: How a Monument of War Turns Into a Marker of Peace
On October 26, 1967, John McCain (1936-2018), the naval aviator who later became a US Senator from Arizona was shot down while flying over Hanoi, Vietnam. McCain then became a war prisoner for five and a half years until his release in March 1973. Where McCain was captured became the site of a memorial, depicting a soldier kneeling with two arms raised in surrender. Originally intended to celebrate the Vietnamese victory, the memorial later turne…
Film Review: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell , directed by Phạm Thiên Ân
Too black to be The Little Mermaid ? Backlash against Disney’s 2023 The Little Mermaid – continuity of racism, white skin preference and hate content in Vietnam
When it was released globally and in Vietnam in May 2023, the live-action Disney movie The Little Mermaid was met with strong backlash online and boycotting in the Southeast Asian country.Negative reactions against the movie due to the casting of Halle Bailey, a Black actress for the titular role, a mermaid and princess of the ocean named Ariel, showed concerning signs of racism and sexism that stem from a preference for white skin and an emphasi…
Hate content and gendered shaming in Vietnamese social media: The case study of Trấn Thành
Few Vietnamese showbiz artists have enjoyed the same success as Trấn Thành, an entertainer with a thriving career in television and filmmaking. One of the most popular Vietnamese artists, Trấn Thành has also endured immense hate. In March 2023, at a press meeting, Trấn Thành bemoaned with tears the misery of being a high-profile figure, insisting that ‘being an artist is much more difficult than you may think’. Rather than garnering sympathy, how…
Popular queerness on Vietnamese prime-time television: Gender Ambiguity, Compliance and Compromises
The past two decades have seen a boom of queer media in many Asian countries, and Vietnam is not outside of this wave. This article examines the queer representations of three entertainers featured in three recent popular Vietnamese reality shows: Gil Lê in Sisters Who Make Waves, BB Trần in Brothers Defeat Thousands of Obstacles, and Pháp Kiều in Brothers Say Hi!. These entertainers serve as fascinating case studies for exploring what this paper…
Sociology (12 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (10 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (9 works) · Vietnamese (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works)