Changing apprehensions of time in nationalism require the coordinate of changing apprehensions of space

Evidence

A number of friendly critics had suggested that Chapter 7 (‘The Last Wave’) oversimplified the process whereby early ‘Third World’ nationalisms were modelled. Furthermore the chapter did not seriously address the question of the role of the local colonial state, rather than the metropole, in styling these nationalisms. At the same time, I became uneasily aware that what I had believed to be a significantly new contribution to thinking about nationalism – changing apprehensions of time – patently lacked its necessary coordinate: changing apprehensions of space. A brilliant doctoral thesis by Thongchai Winichakul, a young Thai historian, stimulated me to think about mapping’s contribution to the nationalist imagination. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 23

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: ‘Homogeneous empty time’ replaced mediaeval simultaneity as the modern mode of apprehension — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 86; The key change was memories moving from local to national scale, not new remembrance — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1217

Related

• ‘Homogeneous empty time’ replaced mediaeval simultaneity as the modern mode of apprehension (similarity 0.82)
• The key change was memories moving from local to national scale, not new remembrance (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• ‘Homogeneous empty time’ replaced mediaeval simultaneity as the modern mode of apprehension #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 86