Abstract
Insurrection inaugurated the 21st century with a series of metropolitan rebellions. Buenos Aires, Athens, Reykjavik, Tunis, Cairo, New York, Madrid, Phnom Penh, Istanbul, São Paulo, and countless other cities around the world presented distinctive forms of rebellion that rejected existing politics and stormed the state with alternatives. Many of these alternatives arose out of the insurgents’ own production of city life and were prefigured in their own processes of urban assembly and deliberation. This article considers whether they constitute a new kind of insurgent urban citizenship - one that both enacts and asserts new forms of direct democracy - and how they could inspire an insurgent urban planning. It does so by examining the intersection of city-making, city-occupying, and rights-claiming in which they emerge and considers the transformation of the political and of planning that the enactment of a new politics produces.
Keywords:
city-making; city-occupying; rights-claiming; urban rebellion; democracy; citizen- ship; insurgent urban planning