Stories about ourselves: How national narratives influence the diffusion of large-scale energy technologies

Populism, identities and responses to energy infrastructures at different scales in the United Kingdom: A post-Brexit reflection

“…To date, research on the social acceptance of RET has tended to be mainly cross-sectional, either focusing on single country case studies (e.g., Devine-Wright & Howes, 2010;Cowell, 2010;Firestone & Kempton, 2007) or comparing several 13 countries (e.g., Stedman et al, 2016;Karimi, Toikka & Hukkinen, 2016;Aas et al, 2014;Toke et al, 2008), at a certain point in time. Research on energy transitions has not frequently adopted a socio-historical perspective that examines if and why perceptions about energy transitions change and evolve over time 11 (but see Malone et al, 2017;Sovacool & Brossman, 2014; for a critique) and, namely, the impact of particular socio-political and economic events on those. However, the present discussion suggests that taking time into account, materialized through socioeconomic and political events and feeding into the history of groups, should more As the authors emphasize "as nations change their demographic makeup, type of society (e.g., rural to urban), degree of involvement with other nations (e.g., "globalization"), national narratives, can be changed, forgotten or added to" (p.71);…”

Citizen Science and Citizen Energy Communities: A Systematic Review and Potential Alliances for SDGs

“…Second, there has been increasing interest in the role of storytelling and narrative modes in citizen science [67,68], and public engagement with specific energy projects and broader energy transitions [69][70][71]. Ottinger makes a specific connection between storytelling and citizen science, with regard to vulnerable communities supplementing data with stories: "stories of communities on the front lines of energy and petrochemical facilities serve as powerful resources for making sense of citizen science data that would be difficult to interpret-or likely to be misinterpreted-using scientific frameworks alone" [49], (pp.…”

The social dynamics of turbine tourism and recreation: Introducing a mixed-method approach to the study of the first U.S. offshore wind farm

“…It has become clear that social scientists play a key role in parsing out the social dimensions of energy decisions that go far beyond the mere availability of technology or resources (Hui & Walker, 2018;Bridge, 2018;Stephens, Wilson, & Peterson, 2008), and that social science is crucial in identifying the positive and negative impacts and meaning of energy transitions on society (Stern, 2017;Butler, Parkhill, & Luzecka, 2018;Benham, 2016). In response to this call for more social science in energy research, an increasing number of energy research studies are addressing human dimensions of energy systems, including the importance of place (Firestone, Bidwell, Gardner, and Knapp, 2018;Devine-Wright & Howes, 2010;Hui & Walker, 2018;Bridge, 2018), public engagement (Buhr & Wibeck, 2014;Eaton et al, 2017;Klain et al, 2017), cultural narratives (Bidwell 2017;Malone et al, 2017;Harris, 2017;Moezzi, Janda, & Rotmann, 2017), ethics (Smith & High, 2017;Frigo, 2017;Howe & Boyer, 2016), and social uncertainty (Li & Pye, 2018;Purkus, Gawel, & Thrän, 2017), among others.…”