Nationalism in its most basic form has to do with populations in a particular area coming to see themselves as sharing a distinct identity, the result of a common history, language, religion, ethnicity, and/or set of political beliefs. Nationalism often gains momentum when people are ruled by those they consider outsiders. Frustrated with their

Benedict Anderson has popularized Walter Benjamin’s conception of ‘empty, homogeneous time’ as the temporality of nations operating in a globally unified time-space (at least for nationalists and nation-makers). As such, it alerted attention to alternative conceptions of temporality.