The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research's spatial turn
The map is not the territory: A sympathetic critique of energy research's spatial turn
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DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.033
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发表时间：
2018-02-01
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Bridge, Gavin
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Bridge, Gavin
社会科学中的能源研究已经开始了“空间冒险”（Castan Broto和Baker，2017）。那些踏上这段旅程的人从不同的学科和理论位置出发，然而一张各种各样的“地图”已经开始出现。由认识论的立场，概念上的Vantage点和调查线，这张地图划分和结构的能源地理提供了一个或多或少同意的领土指南不断增长的领域。在论文的前半部分，我反映了能源研究的空间转向的范围和意义。我描述的地图，现在指导许多空间研究能源，确定核心思想，围绕空间敏感的社会科学能源研究已经到了连贯性，尽管它的异质性和内部的多样性。我提供一个支持性的阅读。在后半部分，我提供了一个更关键的阅读的冒险到目前为止，认为它是不必要的限制，在其阅读的空间。能源社会科学研究的空间视角的全部潜力尚未实现。我概述了实现这种潜力的三种途径-知识生产，分化和拆卸的地理-并展示了每个能源研究的空间冒险在新的方向。
Energy research in the social sciences has embarked on a 'spatial adventure' (Castan Broto and Baker, 2017). Those setting out on this journey have started from different disciplinary and theoretical locations, yet a "map" of sorts has begun to emerge. Made up of epistemological positions, conceptual vantage points and lines of enquiry, this map demarcates and structures the growing field of energy geography providing a more-or-less agreed guide to the territory. In the paper's first half I reflect on the scope and significance of the spatial turn in energy research. I describe the map now guiding much spatial research on energy, identifying core ideas around which spatially-sensitive social science energy research has come to cohere, notwithstanding its heterogeneity and internal diversity. I offer a supportive reading. In the second half, I offer a more critical reading of the adventure so far, arguing that it is unnecessarily limited in its reading of space. The full potential of a spatial perspective for social science research on energy has yet to be realised. I outline three pathways for realising some of this potential - geographies of knowledge production, differentiation and disassembly - and show how each takes energy research's spatial adventure in new directions.