Paper short abstract:

The paternalistic institutions of the nation-state manage risks, sometimes deeply hidden ones like alienation and racialization, contributing to increasing division within society. We should recreate a space for collective action and the production of new and diverse realities of the future.

Paper long abstract:

The production of Risks associated with contact with the otherness of bodies or perspectives is a dividing blade in society, which pedagogies of uncertainty in the form of practices that activate the community to collectively act/negotiate the restructuring of local and regional spaces (common yards or carbonsapce) can be a way to blunt. Through such activities, we domesticate the uncertainties associated with contact with otherness rather than generate risks associated with alienation. The processes of alienating and racialization of otherness are a kind of production of threat, and thus the risks associated with that threat.

The paternalistic institutions of the nation-state and the EU "providing security" externalize the risks (otherness) that may fall on the purity of the nation or the fenced settlement. At the same time, they create mechanisms to move away the risks that threaten minorities from potential ethnic attacks and discrimination, which sometimes widen differences that lead to antagonization and unrest. Managing risks from otherness creates barriers that push different social and ethnic groups further apart.

Usually hard-to-see actions that leave no space for joint debate only emanate physically in extreme situations, when a line of police separates protesters from the risk-managed everyday life.

Pedagogies of uncertainty can be ways of producing communities and mutual understanding in our otherness. We need to produce platforms on which, through understanding, we will try to create new imaginaries, new tomorrows.