Liam Stanley
@liamstanley.bsky.social
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.
We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
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I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to support an externally funded, international project on the instrumentalization of anticolonial discourse in Asia and beyond. remote work OK but needs to be UK based. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Research Assistant/Associate
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The financial marketplace of ideas
The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 4mo agoSCOOP: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish endowed professorships in a bid to reshape faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar. Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
All that supremacist stuff about autistics being inherently more honest than everyone else etc. was always going to end here.
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 4mo agoEnd me
Two observations: (1) A part of UK academics' generous salaries is redistributed from some of the world's poorest people, often via unsustainable debt. (2) This cannot continue. This industry will obviously not halt, but surely it will be more regulated. What then for UK HE and its finances?
Liam Stanley@liamstanley.bsky.social · 4mo agoThere is finally some excellent reporting on the role of agents in recruiting overseas students to Higher Education. As anyone who works in HE will already know, it is a relentlessly grim situation, but the detail and stories is still shocking to read. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
There is finally some excellent reporting on the role of agents in recruiting overseas students to Higher Education. As anyone who works in HE will already know, it is a relentlessly grim situation, but the detail and stories is still shocking to read. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt
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Have written about the politics of how we see the Grenfell Tower fire - including seeing the fire as a “tragedy” - and the flawed role the Inquiry played in producing an authoritative account. doi.org/10.1111/jols...
Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense-making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the tr....
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Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right? You can’t stop tragic things from happening. Fires do happen." Reform's Housing spokesperson Simon Dudley on the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people and left 70+ injured. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
Updated my plots for the evolution of the CO2-intensity of GDP for OECD plus other large economies and emitters. Since 1990, CO2-intensity has declined in most major economies (points below the 45° line). Exceptions here are Saudi & Indonesia. Scroll down for the big ones, India and China.
crazy to me that no one at youtube or google is ever even, like, asked about this stuff anymore, let alone pushed to take responsibility. regardless of whether a PRMC/moral majority-type campaign would be a good idea, is the respectable center really so anemic/captured that it won't even try?
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5mo agowatching a guy with 8.8M subscribers put out this propaganda: there's a transnational far-right power grab and you're not ready for it
Fun and Games - call for papers for a special issue of @newformations.bsky.social on games, gamification, game culture etc: jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/f...
Fun & Games: Call for Papers for a special issue of New Formations
Fun and Games Call for papers for a special issue of New Formation: a Journal of Culture / Theory / Politics ( New Formations is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that has been publ…
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This is a very illuminating essay on the intellectual genesis of Samuel Moyn's particular liberal anti-liberalism www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/16/t...
The Berkeley School: Critical Theory, Political Economy, and the Future of Intellectual History
by Jonathon Catlin This essay is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
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The wonderful @maltelaub.bsky.social and I are hosting a workshop on the theme of Austerity Militarism at EWIS 2026 in Izmir! If you are working on these themes then please consider submitting an abstract! We'd love to see you there. The link to submit is here: eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...
Abstract Submission Guidelines | EISA
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European International Studies Association (EISA)@europeanisa.bsky.social · 6mo ago✅ WS R - Making Sense of 'Austerity Militarism': Welfare Cuts and the New Politics of Sacrifice in a Time of Defence Spending 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE
“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.” It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years! “Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question. www.ft.com/content/7bf5...
I've written an essay on the politics of neurodiversity, drawing on the vital books by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social. I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone new to the topic (and maybe prompt questions for those who know it well) journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
Super interesting reading, drawing on the work of @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social Neurodiversity Politics By Liam Stanley liamstanley.blog/2026/02/04/n...
Neurodiversity Politics - Liam Stanley
I have recently published a review essay on the politics of neurodiversity in New Formations. The link to the published piece is here. Below is the preprint version for those who wish to read but do n...
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Good essay by @liamstanley.bsky.social, exploring the evolution & political aspects of #neurodiversity theory through an analysis of my work & the work of @drrobertchapman.bsky.social. Unpaywalled version available here: liamstanley.blog/2026/02/04/n... #neurodivergence #neuroqueer #consciousness
Neurodiversity Politics - Liam Stanley
I have recently published a review essay on the politics of neurodiversity in New Formations. The link to the published piece is here. Below is the preprint version for those who wish to read but do n...
liamstanley.blog
Liam Stanley@liamstanley.bsky.social · 6mo agoI've written an essay on the politics of neurodiversity, drawing on the vital books by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social. I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone new to the topic (and maybe prompt questions for those who know it well) journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
A wonderful review essay by @liamstanley.bsky.social that we recently published in @newformations.bsky.social
Liam Stanley@liamstanley.bsky.social · 6mo agoI've written an essay on the politics of neurodiversity, drawing on the vital books by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social. I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone new to the topic (and maybe prompt questions for those who know it well) journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
This is really good, I'm equally worried about the pushback and stigmatising of anti disability sentiments coming out daily in news. ⬇️
Liam Stanley@liamstanley.bsky.social · 6mo agoI've written an essay on the politics of neurodiversity, drawing on the vital books by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social. I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone new to the topic (and maybe prompt questions for those who know it well) journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
I've written an essay on the politics of neurodiversity, drawing on the vital books by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @dr-nicky.bsky.social. I hope it will serve as a primer for anyone new to the topic (and maybe prompt questions for those who know it well) journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
A sad story that is unfortunately likely to recur, possibly many times, in the year ahead www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
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Tooze's latest Chartbook on Epstein, Summers, the crisis of liberalism is extraordinary. Don't miss it. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Chartbook 432 "Writing column. Talking w peril" - polycrisis or stroke?
Why do people, more specifically, rich, famous and powerful men, do the things they do?
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Who leaked this Number 10 discussion to Jeffrey Epstein? And are there consequences for the leaker? It’s an internal discussion re. getting markets moving in the aftermath of the financial crisis. No doubt of great interest to Epstein and his financial market clients.
Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The dilemma a place like UCL faces is that it can open a new MA and the following year it will have 50 students, mostly paying ~£20k a year. There is no incentive not to do it, and the ‘student experience’ in many cases is appalling.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Top UK universities increase their reliance on China for overseas recruitment: Data shows that two in five overseas [NB OVERSEAS] students at Russell Group institutions last year were from China" (though that figure hides considerable variation!) www.ft.com/content/9db6...
In discussions of "weaponised interdependence", higher education obviously isn't the biggest issue. Yet through a potential exit power, China basically has the capacity to cause a serious crisis (or worse) in UK HE.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Top UK universities increase their reliance on China for overseas recruitment: Data shows that two in five overseas [NB OVERSEAS] students at Russell Group institutions last year were from China" (though that figure hides considerable variation!) www.ft.com/content/9db6...
Matt Goodwin? The columnist for the magazine available only in departure lounges for private jets?
This is a really useful article for anyone researching British capitalism, especially on the intellectual currents and political contexts of Starmer's political economy.
Colm Murphy@colmpm.bsky.social · 7mo agoMy latest article is out in British Politics. I try to account for the distressed confusion gripping the UK government's economic strategy. In honour of the article's namesake, I include a tortured football analogy. It's free to read (open access) here. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
