In her personal essay “Compressed Cosmopolitanization,” Stefania Gallini’s recounts her feelings of dissonance of joining a reading group focused on risk and Ulrich Beck’s work at the safety of Munich, while coming from the megalopolis of Bogotá, where risk is a daily reality. Beck’s concept of “cosmopolitanization” acknowledges cultural differences within the context of shared global threats, advocating for “compressed cosmopolitanization” to embrace diversity. Gallini questions the universality of Beck’s theories, particularly their applicability to non-European contexts and historical periods prior to the twentieth century. She highlights that modernization has not produced uniform societies, suggesting that the diverse impacts of risk and cosmopolitanization need a more nuanced consideration across different cultural and historical landscapes.