Conflits et stratégies d’acceptabilité sociale autour des énergies marines renouvelables sur le littoral français

Towards Energy Modernisation: Conflictual Territorialisation and Government of Criticism of New Energy Infrastructure in Mid-Mountain Regions

“…Door-to-Door as an Effective "Information" Tool 24 A study of the territorialisation of new infrastructure in mid-mountain regions cannot overlook the "consultation" practices, whether regulatory or not, through which these projects are discussed, negotiated, criticised and so on. Research on other energy infrastructure developed offshore shows that consultation is more a "series of consultation, negotiation, information and communication processes" (Oiry, 2015). The South Aveyron electrical substation is an example of electricity transmission infrastructure governed by special regulations but which does not involve the "general public" 48 .…”

“…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).…”

Socio-political acceptability of floating offshore wind farms in France: challenges and perspectives for marine governance towards sustainability

“…In addition to reinforcing French strategic position among the leading countries in Europe for the development of an increasingly mature technology, floating OW turbines present another notable asset. If conflicts with other uses will depend on the amount of area needed to achieve the established production objectives (Steins et al, 2021;Spijkerboer et al, 2021), the initial assumption was about improving a sector that could be, theoretically, less controversial or disrupted than its bottom-fixed counterpart, in terms of cohabitation between other maritime uses and due to the increase in distance from the coast (Hübner and Pohl, 2015;Oiry, 2015).…”

Vers une modernisation énergétique : territorialisation conflictuelle et gouvernement de la critique des nouvelles infrastructures énergétiques en moyenne montagne

“…Cette recherche en géographie politique et sociale de l'environnement s'inspirant des travaux d'Annaïg Oiry sur les littoraux français (Oiry, 2015 ;2017) est adaptée à notre contexte par les récentes recherches portant le regard sur les enjeux sociaux et politiques des espaces ruraux (Mischi & Renahy, 2008 ;Bruneau et al, 2019) permettant de comprendre avec plus de précision les divers déterminants des conflits relatifs à l'arrivée de nouvelles infrastructures énergétiques. Une approche technocritique (Jarrige, 2014) de la « transition énergétique » et des macro-systèmes techniques (Gras, 1997(Gras, , 2003Raineau, 2011) offre la possibilité d'étudier non plus les conditions de l'acceptabilité sociale des infrastructures éoliennes (Garcia, 2018 ;Gueorguieva-Faye, 2006) mais leur gouvernement dans une perspective foucaldienne du pouvoir (Topçu, 2013).…”