European fiction—Facts or music?
In: History of European ideas, Band 20, Heft 1-3, S. 461-467
ISSN: 0191-6599
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In: History of European ideas, Band 20, Heft 1-3, S. 461-467
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: History of European ideas, Band 20, Heft 1-3, S. 461-468
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 140, S. 102959
In: Social movement studies: journal of social, cultural and political protest, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 274-296
ISSN: 1474-2837
In: Social theory & health, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 192-212
ISSN: 1477-822X
In: Social science & medicine, Band 346, S. 116725
ISSN: 1873-5347
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and expertise, the paper develops a set of 100 priority questions for future research within SSH scholarship on renewable energy sources. These questions were aggregated into four main directions: (i) deep transformations and connections to the broader economic system (i.e. radical ways of (re)arranging socio-technical, political and economic relations), (ii) cultural and geographical diversity (i.e. contextual cultural, historical, political and socio-economic factors influencing citizen support for energy transitions), (iii) complexifying energy governance (i.e. understanding energy systems from a systems dynamics perspective) and (iv) shifting from instrumental acceptance to value-based objectives (i.e. public support for energy transitions as a normative notion linked to trust-building and citizen engagement). While this agenda is not intended to be—and cannot be—exhaustive or exclusive, we argue that it advances the understanding of SSH research on renewable energy sources and may have important value in the prioritisation of SSH themes needed to enrich dialogues between policymakers, funding institutions and researchers. SSH scholarship should not be treated as instrumental to other research on renewable energy but as intrinsic and of the same hierarchical importance.
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