Vznikající globality Zanskaru: Etnografie lokalizované globalizace

Abstrakt

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
have mostly failed in this regard.