The Time beneath the Concrete

“Nasser Abourahme’s brilliant and unique study provides a vital political grammar to understand the making of Palestinian refugee camps and to contend with the most pressing aspects of dispossession and displacement in contemporary capitalism’s racial colonial order. In this thematically wide-ranging and impeccably researched book, Abourahme urges us to think beyond the sovereign and propertied logics of the plot, border, and settlement, and instead to consider a politics of ‘inhabitation’ as a counterpolitical force—so evident in Palestinians’ cultures of resistance—and as a concept and praxis for the global dispossessed.” - Brenna Bhandar, author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership

“It is rare to read a book that is so commanding, politically urgent, theoretically precise, and historically rich. The Time beneath the Concrete is historic in that nothing like it on the topic has been written. It is also conscious of its own historical time. The book is not only about Palestine but a work that is the Question of Palestine. For scholars of Palestine and the global condition, settler colonialism and anticolonialism, geography and political theory, this is a pathbreaking, timely, much-needed contribution.” - Samera Esmeir, author of Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History

"The Time Beneath the Concrete brings the Palestinian refugee camp and its many layers of context and significance to the helm. . . . Abourahme’s research portrays imperialism’s influence in creating the Palestinian refugee camps, which were based on racial regimes rather than humanitarian endeavours." - Ramona Wadi, Middle East Monitor