Alexander Mack is an Independent Researcher & Photographer currently based in Brisbane, Australia. He holds a PhD from the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales, and edits Figurations newsletter published by the Norbert Elias Foundation. His research develops greater synergies between process sociology, the strand of risk sociology developed by Ulrich Beck, and IR, through the interconnections between knowledge processes, power relations and emotional management. He has a forthcoming Handbook chapter entitled ‘The Open Society and Attitudes to Transnational Migration: A Process Sociological Approach to Liberal Democratic Anxieties’ in H. Williams, D. Boucher, P. Sutch, D. Reidy, A. Koutsoukis (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory, Volume 2. Palgrave Macmillan.