The fifth book published in 2025 that was indexed by Southwest Humanities is a very timely one. Nasser Abourahme’s The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony (Duke University Press, 2025) takes up the argument that settler colonialism does not only attempt to conquer space but also time. Through a detailed analysis of Palestinian refugee camps, Abourahme shows that the Israeli settler-colonial project is in many ways “defined by its inability to move past the past—a project stuck at its foundational moment of conquest.” Moreover, this book demonstrates that the insistence of Palestinian return refuses a closure of the past into settler futurity—a struggle that takes place not only in the time of dispossession but also over that time. Hence, the struggle of the Palestinian refugee camps “is a form of anticolonial refusal that draws its power not from any decisive finality, but precisely from irresolution and keeping time open.” For more information about this urgent new title, please take a look at the publisher’s website here.