THE TIME BENEATH THE CONCRETE: PALESTINE BETWEEN CAMP AND COLONY
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Nasser Abourahme's work, “The Time Beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony,” offers an original and theoretically rich examination that treats Palestinian refugee camps as spaces at the heart of the struggle between settler colonists and the indigenous Palestinian people. The author approaches the phenomenon of refugee camps not merely as temporary humanitarian shelters, but as both concrete socio-political objects and abstract concepts. He analyzes ongoing settler colonialism in Palestine through the lens of the camps and discusses the applicability of this analysis to patterns of displacement on a global scale. The book's central argument is that the existence of Palestinian refugee camps prevents the Israeli state from concluding the process of displacement and dispossession of Palestinians and moving towards normalization. Refugee camps embody what Abourahme calls the temporal condition of “settlerness,” in which aggressive settler projects are constantly disrupted by anti-colonial resistance before they can be completed, leading to a perpetual stalemate. The author presents the historical development of the Palestinian Question in the context of refugee camps within a rich conceptual framework. In the data collection phase, the author draws on UN archives, official Israeli state documents, and literary works such as novels written by Palestinians. Abourahme’s work contributes not only to Palestinian studies and debates on settler colonialism but also to the literature on global migration and displacement.
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Birincil Dil
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Konular
Ortadoğu Çalışmaları
Bölüm
Kitap İncelemesi
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
18 Mart 2026
Gönderilme Tarihi
28 Ocak 2026
Kabul Tarihi
18 Mart 2026
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2026 Cilt: 11 Sayı: 22