%0 Journal Article
%T Metropolitan rebellions and the politics of commoning the city
%A James Holston
%J Anthropological Theory
%@ 1741-2641
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1463499618812324
%X This article analyzes the remarkable wave of metropolitan rebellions that inaugurated the 21st century around the world (2000¨C2016). It argues that they fuel an emergent politics of city-making in which residents consider the city as a collective social and material product that they produce; in effect, a commons. It investigates this politics at the intersection of processes of city-making, city-occupying, and rights-claiming that generate movements for insurgent urban citizenships. It develops a critique of the so-called post-political in anthropological theory, analyzes recent urban uprisings in Brazil and Turkey, distinguishes between protest and insurgent movements, evaluates digital communication technologies as a new means to common the city, and suggests what urban citizenship brings to politics that the national does not
%K cities
%K citizenship
%K commons
%K direct democracy
%K politics
%K rebellion
%K rights
%K social media
%K Brazil
%K Turkey
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1463499618812324