This book provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and on energy transitions in general by questioning prevalent principles and proposing specific research pathways and lines of inquiry that look beyond depoliticised, business-as-usual discourses and research agendas on green growth and sustainability. It brings together authors from different socio-geographical and disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences to reflect upon, discuss and advance what we propose to be five cornerstones of a critical approach: overcoming individualism and socio-cognitivism; repoliticisations recognising and articulating power relations; for interdisciplinarity; interventions praxis and political engagement with research; and overcoming localism and spatial determinism: As such, this book offers academics, students and practitioners alike a comprehensive perspective of what it means to be critical when inquiring into the social acceptance of renewable energy and associated infrastructures.
Chapter
1. A Critical Approach to the Social Acceptance of Renewable
Energy Infrastructures.
Chapter
2. Strategies for Integrating Quantitative
Methods into Critical Social Acceptance Research.
Chapter
3. Using a
Critical Approach to Unpack the Visual-Spatial Impacts of Energy
Infrastructures.
Chapter
4. Getting Used to It, But ? Rethinking the
Elusive U-Curve of Acceptance and Post-ConstructionAssumptions.
Chapter
5.
Does Renewable Energy Exist? Fossil Fuel+ Technologies and the Search for
Renewable Energy.
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6. ANT Perspective on Wind Power Planning and
Social AcceptanceA Call for Interdisciplinarity.
Chapter
7. Social
Acceptance and Interdisciplinarity: Understanding the Constructive Power of
Terminology.
Chapter
8. Social Acceptance: Beyond Criticism and Critical, a
Call for Experimental Ontology.
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9. How to Assess What Society Wants?
The Need for a Renewed Social Conflict Research Agenda.
Chapter10.
Provincial Polyphasia: Community Energy Generation and the Politics of
Sustainability Transition in Alberta, Canada.
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11. People-Place
Bonds, Rhetorical Meaning-Making and Doing Acceptance to a Renewable
Energy Infrastructure: Postcolonial Insights from the GlobalSouth.
Chapter
12. Energy Justice and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Projects in the
Global South.
Chapter
13. Contributions, Tensions and Future Avenues: A
Discussion./
Susana Batel is an environmental psychologist at the University Institute of Lisbon interested in peoples engagement with energy transitions and associated social justice issues. She has published in journals like the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Energy Policy and Energy Research & Social Science, and is co-editor of Papers on Social Representations.
David Rudolph is a human geographer at the Technical University of Denmark with an interest in just, inclusive and equitable low-carbon energy transitions. He has published in journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning C and Energy Research & Social Science.
