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A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructuresANT Perspective on Wind Power Planning and Social Acceptance—A Call for Interdisciplinarity

A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures: ANT Perspective... [The aim of this chapter is to use the actor-network theory (ANT) lens to examine how socio-material conditions shape the deployment of, and controversies around, renewable energy technologies (RET). We use the ANT lens to unpack the construction of otherwise black-boxed concepts within the social acceptance (SA) literature. We do so through three empirical snapshots, inquiring into the black-boxed constructs of ‘landscapes’, ‘resources’ and ‘stakeholders’. By tracing the socio-material work required to assemble the three concepts, we reveal the underlying and often overlooked politics of black-boxed concepts. Illuminating the merits of utilising the relational and symmetrical socio-material ANT lens, we call for cross-fertilisation between the SA literature and ANT in order to address a much wider set of critical research questions in the SA literature.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructuresANT Perspective on Wind Power Planning and Social Acceptance—A Call for Interdisciplinarity

Editors: Batel, Susana; Rudolph, David
Kirkegaard, Julia Kirch; Nyborg, Sophie
Springer Journals — Aug 26, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-73698-9
Pages
105 –121
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-73699-6_6
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Abstract

[The aim of this chapter is to use the actor-network theory (ANT) lens to examine how socio-material conditions shape the deployment of, and controversies around, renewable energy technologies (RET). We use the ANT lens to unpack the construction of otherwise black-boxed concepts within the social acceptance (SA) literature. We do so through three empirical snapshots, inquiring into the black-boxed constructs of ‘landscapes’, ‘resources’ and ‘stakeholders’. By tracing the socio-material work required to assemble the three concepts, we reveal the underlying and often overlooked politics of black-boxed concepts. Illuminating the merits of utilising the relational and symmetrical socio-material ANT lens, we call for cross-fertilisation between the SA literature and ANT in order to address a much wider set of critical research questions in the SA literature.]

Published: Aug 26, 2021

Keywords: Actor-Network-Theory (ANT); Social Acceptance; Wind farm landscape/site; Wind resource; Stakeholders

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