Liam Stanley

@liamstanley.bsky.social

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I teach and research politics and political economy at the University of Sheffield. I am currently researching global culture wars, the radical right, and neurodiversity politics.

Screenshot of title and abstract to an academic article "The codpiece with a charm: coffee and sexual anxiety in 1670s England" by Amelia Rosch
When U.S. President Donald Trump first ordered strikes on Venezuelan ships in September, it was purportedly to intercept drug traffickers. Three months later everyone, including the president himself, acknowledges the role Venezuela’s oil and its fraught relationship with U.S. oil companies over the years plays in the United States’ invasion of the country. But Drilled reporting shows that U.S. oil majors don’t necessarily want back into Venezuela’s declining and decrepit oil fields so much as they are eager to protect their interests in neighboring Guyana, home to one of the world’s most productive oil fields, which Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has aggressively been trying to claim as his own over the past decade.
Article title: The Chinese road to decarbonisation: China’s party-state capitalism in the political economy of fossil energy phase-out Author: Chris Saltmarsh Abstract: While blind spots around climate change and China in the literature are now being plugged, there remains an imbalance between emphases placed on green energy build-out versus fossil energy phase-out in the political economy of global energy transition. China’s paradoxical energy economy raises the puzzle as to whether the structures of China’s party-state capitalism render it capable of successfully confronting the fossil fuel industry, just as it has scaled green technologies. This article historicises China’s fossil economy, identifying a unique potentiality for fossil energy phase-out arising from its idiosyncratic post-revolutionary development trajectory. The prominence of the CCP in China’s party-state capitalism contrasts with the West’s basis in profit-seeking market forces. This divergence underpins distinct power resources to dominate carbon-intensive industries and ideational resources to legitimate the social upheavals of energy transition. In practice, fossil energy phase-out is far from pre-determined as the potentiality rests in an ongoing struggle between corporate and political objectives within the regime as well as the uncertain responses of domestic populations and international actors. Regardless, scholars and practitioners alike should now understand China as standing alone in the world system as a geopolitically ascendent, continent-sized, post-revolutionary party-state with unique capacities to lead global energy transition.
A chart showing that since May 2020, companies have committed about $340 billion to fighting racial injustice.
Title and abstract for academic article, available from https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-025-00280-x
Money, territory, decarbonisation: The looming crisis of British politics Liam Stanley, Dillon Wamsley, and Joseph Ward