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Porträtt Katinka Johansen. Foto: Emma Lord.

Katinka Johansen

Postdoc

Porträtt Katinka Johansen. Foto: Emma Lord.

A cognitive mess : Mixed feelings about wind farms on the Danish coast and the emotions of energy infrastructure opposition

Författare

  • Katinka Johansen
  • Paul Upham

Summary, in English

The majority of local respondents in a large-scale survey were in favour of planned local wind farms on the Danish coast, despite these wind farm plans being the source of wider public and political contestation and opposition. Here we discuss results from the open-ended questions in the survey, specifically focusing on comments expressing how some respondents felt split in their views of these wind farms, accepting the need for renewable energy while at the same time being concerned about the potential local impact of the wind farms. Building on previous theoretical propositions relating to energy infrastructure opposition, here we apply the concept of cognitive polyphasia in some depth, providing a socio-cognitive account of the internal contradiction of being positively disposed to renewable energy in principle, but concerned about or opposed to specific developments in localities. We distinguish a cognitive polyphasic account of such mixed feelings from cognitive dissonance accounts, and we identify several types of polyphasic representations, providing a basis for further work in other cases.

Publiceringsår

2020

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Energy Research and Social Science

Volym

66

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Energy Systems

Nyckelord

  • Social representations
  • Cognitive polyphasia
  • Nearshore wind
  • Offshore wind
  • Public objection
  • Acceptance

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2214-6326