ABSTRACT
Over the past few years, insurgent citizens and incipient urban political movements in a wide variety of historical-geographical contexts have profoundly unsettled the cozy neoliberal status quo and staged, albeit in often contradictory and confusing manners, a profound discontent with the state of the situation and choreographed, in often spectacular Bakhtinian outbursts, new urban modes of being-in-common while radically contesting the neoliberal and post-democratic status quo. Both the notion and practice of urban insurgent citizenship have indeed been high on the intellectual and political agenda in recent years, and a range of influential academic contributors have fleshed out its social and political significance. Since the urban year of 2011, insurrectional urban interventions have indeed become a recurrent motif of many urban political protests worldwide. Not since the 1960s have so many people in vastly different cities across the world taken to the streets, occupying squares and experimenting with new ways of organizing the urban commons in democratic and egalitarian manners.
