functions, jurisdictions and modalities
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(Fuller & Harley 2004, 17). They are designed tobe nodes in a global transport apparatus, and in their optimal condition, their only stable feature is that they are always in motion; they are meta-stable, with cargo,passengers and planes in constant flow.Bangkok
’
s Suvarnabhumi Airport opened to great fanfare in 2006, not unlike theexcitement at the opening of Yangon Mingaladon airport
’
s grand new internationalterminal in 2007. Both buildings are structurally and aesthetically consistent withinternational standards and expectations, though they have strategically placedreminders of national history and cultural identity, particularly noted in Bangkok
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sgiant
yak
statues in the departures hall, or Yangon
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s
Hintha
mural on the terminalwall. The corporate website of Suvarnabhumi Airport even advertises the facility as
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afirst-class international airport with international standard services, in the uniqueThai style
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(www.suvarnabhumiairport.com). However, intrinsic to these vaunting shrines to Southeast Asian techno-modernity is an element to which transportationadvertising and passengers themselves are largely oblivious: ghosts and spirits own,operate and are embedded in airport spaces and have been known to interfere withaviation logistics.