Terminally Haunted: Aviation Ghosts, Hybrid Buddhist Practices, and Disaster Aversion Strategies Amongst Airport Workers in Myanmar and Thailand
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Much of what is written about airports is from the perspective of a visionary architect, or from the experience of the cosmopolitan traveller. Airport workers, aside from their intimate knowledge of the airport space, know something about terminals that their designers and itinerant occupants do not: how they are haunted. In Yangon, Myanmar and Bangkok, Thailand, airport workers exchange occupational ghost lore regarding sightings, motives and histories of spirits within aviation. They also...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Ferguson, Jane | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-10T23:03:13Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1740-9314 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62072 | |
dc.description.abstract | Much of what is written about airports is from the perspective of a visionary architect, or from the experience of the cosmopolitan traveller. Airport workers, aside from their intimate knowledge of the airport space, know something about terminals that their designers and itinerant occupants do not: how they are haunted. In Yangon, Myanmar and Bangkok, Thailand, airport workers exchange occupational ghost lore regarding sightings, motives and histories of spirits within aviation. They also make use of hybrid Buddhist practices to ward off danger from airport spaces, and to make their own future travels safe and propitious. In addition to challenging the notion of the airport as the �non-place�, this paper demonstrates that ecumenical practices and hauntings crucially frame techno-modernity, uniting local and transregional culture with the global semantic legibility of the logistic superstructure of passenger aviation. | |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis Group | |
dc.source | Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology | |
dc.subject | Keywords: Aviation; Buddhism; Ghosts; Myanmar; Non-Places; Thailand | |
dc.title | Terminally Haunted: Aviation Ghosts, Hybrid Buddhist Practices, and Disaster Aversion Strategies Amongst Airport Workers in Myanmar and Thailand | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 15 | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u4455832xPUB665 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Ferguson, Jane, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 47 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 64 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14442213.2013.872698 | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-12-27T07:31:58Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-84893594439 | |
local.identifier.thomsonID | 000330692300003 | |
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