The localization of modernity / Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender -- Violence of categories / Abidin Kusno -- Stability in flux / Beng Lan Goh -- The local articulation of nationality / Peter Carroll -- The state, the city and the priest / Jordana Dym -- Cosmopolitan topographies of Paris / Camilla Fojas -- Mexican past and mexican presence in San Antonio's market squarel / Karl Hagstrom Miller.