“…Although this "art of governance" has been studied for nuclear energy (Topçu, 2013;Meyer, 2014), MREs 13 (Oiry, 2017) and offshore wind power in particular (Evrard & Pasquier, 2018;Bourdier, 2019), in France the development of new energy infrastructure is mostly taking place around villages and in rural areas (Baggioni, 2017), typically involving smaller projects within a very different framework (in administrative, regulatory, economic and political terms for example) to the aforementioned infrastructure, yet it has hardly been studied from this angle to date. This research into the political and social geography of the environment, drawing inspiration from Annaïg Oiry's work on the French coastlines (Oiry, 2015(Oiry, , 2017 and tailored to our context by recent research probing the social and political issues facing rural areas (Mischi & Renahy, 2008;Bruneau et al, 2019), yields more precise insight into the various determining factors of conflicts surrounding the arrival of new energy infrastructure. A technocritical approach (Jarrige, 2014) to the "energy transition" and large technical systems (Gras, 1997(Gras, , 2003Raineau, 2011) sets the stage for research no longer focusing on the conditions of social acceptability where wind energy infrastructure is concerned (Garcia, 2018;Gueorguieva-Faye, 2006) but on their government from a Foucauldian perspective of power (Topçu, 2013).…”