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In modern and contemporary histories, dispossession of land and time represent two pillars of settler colonialism. Modes of resistance are evolving with global colonial projects. Time has become a locus of conquer, stolen from both the dispossessed land and its ‘disposable’ subjects. In the case of Palestinians, the means of dispossession and colonialism are underpinned by a tension between the past and present. Dr. Nasser Abourahme discusses how the reality of this tension also marks the forms of resistance created by Palestinians through the lens of temporality, spatiality, and geography. By reclaiming an “impossible present” they pave the way towards a liberated future in time and space. We invite you all to this book launch to engage in how these ideas can be scaled to challenge global systems of extraction that underpin localised forms of oppression and dispossession.
