A challenge to Alex Koutsoukis @AndreSaramago @Leon_W_Lau Laurie Robert van Krieken & anyone else willing to have a go, what social processes are embedded in this image? #everydaysocialprocesses

Journal article published! Delighted to see my piece on fortification processes in print/pixel many thanks Human Figurations Editors @Rusticulus_R | hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.11217…

New work on Process sociology and IR

Would you have remembered it was United Nations Day a week or so ago? Someone did. A flag is but rag to paraphrase Durkheim, yet how do many such rags become sacred, while others are ignored by passers by? This is a broader question for social science not just narrow politics.

A standard International Relations question might be where is the international in this image? A wider field of view might note that the visible material object on the right is a glimpse into invisible sociological & psychological relations that encompass international relations.

As soon as I pressed the shutter Alex Koutsoukis @Leon_W_Lau I knew which researcher might get something out of a discarded object that has become a global symbol across societies #processsociology #linklater

An extended video abstract showing how a combination of #processsociology & the Becks strand of #risksociology can open an interesting space of inquiry | youtu.be/Qj3lJQYPi2o

A succinct historically contextualised account of the #ukrainecrisis, which explains the long term state-society formation processes & patterns of emotional identification in ways that avoid perpetuating a short-term media spectacle #processsociology | politico.com/news/magazine/…

A #Shostakovich symphony a day, helps one's thoughts and words to go about their way, echos chime from another time, to understand one's own feeling of terror its soothing to hear sounds from another era. Start with No 5 and enjoy feeling alive | youtube.com/watch?v=cg0M4L…

Published! A review of Jan Stöckmann's The Architects of International Relations. A historiographical inquiry that concludes with a sociological question on how societies are organised affect their responses to wider international relations. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A treasured photograph with a dear friend. Taken moments after I passed my viva InterPol Aberystywth University

The ‘Aber 5’, the late Andrew Linklater +4 of his students InterPol Aberystywth University, wrote E-International Relations about 5 global crises from the viewpoint of #ProcessSociology. We discuss how Process Sociology can talk to IR debates. You can read them all ⬇️ e-ir.info/tag/process-so…