The “capitals” of this emergent postnational cartography, as I have already suggested, are likely to be found in a variety of spatial formations that may not have much to do with the self-representation of sovereign states. Some of these postnational capitals will be found in the different sorts of translocalities to which I alluded earlier. These translocalities might be formed by refugee dynamics, by permanent efforts to organize social life around tourism, or by the structural effects of the emergent global networks of labor and capital. Such places, usually cities, tend to be weakly associated with their national environment and are, rather, integrally involved with transnational allegiances and interests. Of course, nation-states often try to exercise strong control over these cities and their civic life (as with China in respect to the anticipated acquisition of Hongkong). But such efforts will no longer be able to rely on the commonsense there is a national territory to which these cities and their inhabitants naturally belong. The relationship of such “translocal” places to the quotidian production of locality as a feature of human life and to the changing cartographies of diasporic groups will require serious rethinking of our existing images of cities, space, and territorial affiliation.