Vznikající globality Zanskaru

Anotace: This article is a symmetrical ethnography of globalisation in progress. From a material-semiotic, localised perspective, I focus on the until recently isolated Indian region of Zanskar. I explore the ways in which new actors – the Zanskar Highway, new technologies and practices, new kinds of people – enter the region while others disappear. The ongoing globalisation of Zanskar is neither uniform nor unambiguous: different relations and socio-material assemblages produce different but locally coexisting globalities. In this regard, I examine the ways in which locals participate in the whole process. Far from being passive recipients, they can promote a specific globality through their own performances. Finally, using the case of the Czech schools in Kargyak, a Zanskari village, I discuss the extent to which there can be alternatives to the dominant forms of globalisation, what the conditions are for them to succeed, and why the Kargyak schools