The paper is an attempt to outline Mudrooroo’s take on globalization, based mostly on his texts ‘The Spectral Homelands’, ‘Globalization in Dharamsala, Genoa and Singapore Airport’, and two short stories, ‘How I Tried to Change My Name’ and ‘School Boy Hero’, set in and around Dharamsala. Written immediately after having witnessed the 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, where the globalized institutional power replied to the democratic contestation of concerned citizens with a massive display of violence, Mudrooroo’s texts envisage two versions of globalization, represented by Singapore Airport on the one hand and the northern Indian city of Dharamsala on the other. While the airport appears as a global marketplace where local content and culture are ‘submerged’, granted only a token presence, the capital-in-exile of Tibetan Buddhism features a global dimension still founded on local roots. Following Derrida, Mudrooroo emphasizes the airport as pure spectacle while the provincial city is described as ‘spectral’: here, “certain underground forces” are still attempting to “humanize globalization”, to render it “homely”. In the paper, I argue that Mudrooroo’s conceptualization of two versions of globalization is politically useful to analyze the events of the following decades which, after 9/11, produced the wars of the 21st century.