Book chapter
ANT Perspective on Wind Power Planning and Social Acceptance—A Call for Interdisciplinarity
Society, Market and Policy, Wind Energy Systems Division, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark1
Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark2
Responsible Research and Innovation, Innovation, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark3
Innovation, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark4
Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark5
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.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Pages: | 105-121 |
| Journal subtitle: | Going Beyond Green Growth and Sustainability |
| ISBN: | 3030736989 , 3030736997 , 9783030736989 , 9783030736996 , 3030737012 and 9783030737016 |
| Types: | Book chapter |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-73699-6_6 |
| ORCIDs: | Kirkegaard, Julia Kirch and Nyborg, Sophie |
