This is a survey article that advertizes the idea that there should exist a
theory of p-adic local analogues of Shimura varieties. Prime examples are the
towers of rigid-analytic spaces defined by Rapoport-Zink spaces, and we also
review their theory in the light of this idea. We also discuss conjectures on
the â„“-adic cohomology of local Shimura varieties.Comment: 53 page