Susana Batel
Biographic Data
| ID | 214434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susana Batel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susana |
| FAMILY NAME | Batel |
| SIGNATURE | BATEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6586-6716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 337 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Solar industrialization, ‘sacrifice zones,’ and new environmental movements: Emerging discourses of commonality and critique in Portugal’s energy transition
The transition to renewable energy is being pursued within neoliberal frameworks that prioritize market competition and industrial development, increasingly resulting in significant negative socio-ecological consequences and environmental injustices. As a result, scholars and activists are increasingly taking up more radical discursive strategies, adopting critical terms like ‘sacrifice zone,’ to describe marginalized places. In short, critiques …
The Renewable Energy Transition and “the People” – Exploring the Intersections of Right-wing Populism and the Renewable Energy Transition in Portuguese Media Discourses
Local contestation to the deployment of large-scale renewable energy infrastructures has been increasing. Right-wing populism has also been on the rise across the world. This article aims to explore the potential relations between these two socio-political issues, by analyzing Portuguese media discourses on the renewable energy transition and if and how those expose associations with right-wing populist rhetoric. 465 articles published by Portugu…
Understanding Short and Long Mobilities Together: Place Attachment and Community Dynamics in Mouraria, Lisbon
The increase in mobilities over the last decades has facilitated the circulation of people, with short‐ and long‐term mobility practices often intertwining in the same destinations. Alongside migration processes of long‐term mobility to search for better living conditions, short mobility processes, such as touristification, started to significantly shape some cities and their communities in Southern Europe. This study examines place attachments, …
Rural communities’ energy metabolisms in Portugal: Between territorial injustices and far-right populism
In the last decades, rural areas have been centerstage of a critical energy social sciences’ research agenda, as the local resistance to the injustices of the renewable energy transition has increased. At the same time, far-right populism and related rhetoric against migrants and minorities has been on the rise across the world, often making use of rural communities’ concerns and deprivations. However, the relations between far-right populism, it…
Do the ends justify the means? Problematizing social acceptance and instrumentally-driven community engagement in proposed energy projects
Proposed energy projects across rural working landscapes play an important role in energy transitions. While community engagement has been increasingly a part of these projects, instrumental motivations for engagement and the emphasis placed on achieving social acceptance has remained uncritically examined. Here, we aim to highlight relationships between actor rationale, the structuring of engagement processes, and how communities perceive the dr…
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements
To understand social issues and practices such as those related to climate change and technological change that are clearly future‐oriented – collectively experienced events that are “not yet” – and co‐constructed by different actors, we need nuanced conceptualizations of how people think about, negotiate and co‐create futures that allow us to understand not only what people (can) think and do about future‐related issues but also how that happens…
Mobilidades, emergência climática e a street art de Lisboa
O presente trabalho pretende examinar e refletir sobre as relações entre mobilidade, emergência climática e street art em Lisboa, adotando uma abordagem interdisciplinar. A partir do novo paradigma da mobilidade, procuramos estabelecer a relevância das expressões urbanas artísticas como arena de discussão pública na cidade, enquanto utilizamos como eixo de análise seu caráter efêmero e (i)móvel, legal e ilegal. Analisando o impacto das mobilidade…
The ‘Urban Village’ versus the ‘City for Profit’: Querying Nimby through a comparative analysis of touristification in Lisbon and Madrid
Southern European cities face the challenges associated with the recent emergence of the formal and informal economies of the ‘Tourist City’ and are the scenario for diverse social tensions. Local protests against these changes, sometimes discredited as NIMBY –Not In My Backyard– have led to conflicts with visitors and local public administrations. However, fuzzy definitions of the groups organising these protests are often found in the literatur…
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe
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 discip…
Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: Spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North
The extent to which infrastructures being deployed for a postcarbon transition can be considered sustainable has been increasingly scrutinized within the critical turn in energy justice research. However, the focus therein tends to be on how new megaprojects still reveal Global North–Global South colonial relations and energy-related injustices. In this paper, we aim to contribute to widening critical energy justice research by illustrating how i…
A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures: Going beyond green growth and sustainability
Emplacing linked lives: A qualitative approach to understanding the co‐evolution of residential mobility and place attachment formation over time
Despite growing interest in issues of residential mobility and place attachment in a globalised world, research within Environmental and Community psychology has tended to overlook the ways that interpersonal relations, and wider socio‐political and economic structural factors inform place attachment formation amongst residentially mobile individuals. We address this gap drawing on the Human Geography concept of ‘Linked Lives’ (Coulter et al., Pr…
Using Nimby rhetoric as a political resource to negotiate responses to local energy infrastructure: A power line case study
Research has shown how the NIMBY explanation for local opposition to energy infrastructures has made its way into the discourses of developers, policy makers, the media and active protesters. However, few studies have explored how community members draw on discourses of NIMBYism to interpret and negotiate responses to local energy proposals. We address this gap drawing on qualitative data from two UK case studies. Analyses show that NIMBY, as a r…
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future
A critical discussion of research on the social acceptance of renewable energy generation and associated infrastructures and an agenda for the future
Social sciences’ research on the social acceptance of renewable energy generation and associated technologies (RET), such as high voltage power lines, has been growing in the last decades. In fact, while RET are considered one of the main mitigation measures of climate change, opposition to their construction, and namely from the local communities living nearby, is often found. Important conceptual proposals have been made for a better understand…
Populism, identities and responses to energy infrastructures at different scales in the United Kingdom: A post-Brexit reflection
Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project
Scepticism about the value of parochialism and local belonging has been a persistent feature of geographical scholarship, which has advocated a relational account of place and a cosmopolitan worldview. This paper revisits the Parish Maps project that was instigated in 1987 by UK arts and environment charity Common Ground, which led to the creation of thousands of maps across the UK and beyond, and was appraised in 1996 by Crouch and Matless in th…
Participar Está Na Moda: Uma Abordagem Psicossocial Dos Orçamentos Participativos
Autores têm apontado para como os processos de participação institucionalizados poderão não ser verdadeiramente participativos. Este estudo analisa factores estruturais condicionantes destes processos, tendencialmente esquecidos nos estudos sobre a participação no âmbito da Psicologia Social, através de análise exploratória das sessões de Orçamento Participativo (OP) em três municípios em Portugal. Partindo de uma perspectiva etnográfica, procurá…
A conceptual framework for understanding the social acceptance of energy infrastructure: Insights from energy storage
My neighbourhood, my country or my planet? The influence of multiple place attachments and climate change concern on social acceptance of energy infrastructure
Energy Colonialism and the Role of the Global in Local Responses to New Energy Infrastructures in the UK: A Critical and Exploratory Empirical Analysis
Governments, namely in the global North, are fostering the deployment of large-scale low carbon and associated energy infrastructures (EIs), such as power lines, to mitigate climate change. However, when infrastructures are to be deployed, opposition is often found. Environmental justice—involving issues of distributive and procedural justice and recognition—and associated inter-group relations, has been identified as a key aspect for local oppos…
Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories
Debates over the value and compatibility of different approaches to understanding and changing environmental‐relevant actions proliferate across the social sciences. This article reviews and discusses some of the (socio‐)psychological and sociological approaches in those debates. We will start by critically reviewing the (socio‐)psychological perspectives, highlighting two main shortcomings. First, they are often partial in their focus—concentrat…
Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories
In the article cited above, on page 739, an error was made in Figure 2. The text “SRT” (in blue box) should have read as “SPT.” The correct figure is provided below
Towards a sustainable grid development regime? A comparison of British, Norwegian, and Swedish grid development
Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK
Towards a better understanding of people’s responses to renewable energy technologies: Insights from Social Representations Theory
In the past few years, social research has been examining what contributes to the attitude-behaviour gap in people's responses to large-scale renewable energy technologies. The NIMBY explanation for the gap has long dominated that area of research, but has also been criticised. Alternative proposals to NIMBY were advanced, but it is still evident that some of those maintain presuppositions of NIMBY and that this area of research needs more integr…
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future
My neighbourhood, my country or my planet? The influence of multiple place attachments and climate change concern on social acceptance of energy infrastructure
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe
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 discip…
A Social Representations Approach To The Communication Between Different Spheres: An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Two Discursive Formats
This paper discusses the potential of the notions of reification and consensualization as developed by the theory of social representations as analytical tools for addressing the communication between the lay and scientific spheres. Social Representations Theory started by offering an over‐sharp distinction between the reified and the consensual universes of which science and common sense, respectively, were presented as paradigmatic. This paper,…
Populism, identities and responses to energy infrastructures at different scales in the United Kingdom: A post-Brexit reflection
Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: Spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North
The extent to which infrastructures being deployed for a postcarbon transition can be considered sustainable has been increasingly scrutinized within the critical turn in energy justice research. However, the focus therein tends to be on how new megaprojects still reveal Global North–Global South colonial relations and energy-related injustices. In this paper, we aim to contribute to widening critical energy justice research by illustrating how i…
Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories
Debates over the value and compatibility of different approaches to understanding and changing environmental‐relevant actions proliferate across the social sciences. This article reviews and discusses some of the (socio‐)psychological and sociological approaches in those debates. We will start by critically reviewing the (socio‐)psychological perspectives, highlighting two main shortcomings. First, they are often partial in their focus—concentrat…
Energy Colonialism and the Role of the Global in Local Responses to New Energy Infrastructures in the UK: A Critical and Exploratory Empirical Analysis
Governments, namely in the global North, are fostering the deployment of large-scale low carbon and associated energy infrastructures (EIs), such as power lines, to mitigate climate change. However, when infrastructures are to be deployed, opposition is often found. Environmental justice—involving issues of distributive and procedural justice and recognition—and associated inter-group relations, has been identified as a key aspect for local oppos…
Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK
Explaining public preferences for high voltage pylon designs: An empirical study of perceived fit in a rural landscape
Collective Action and Social Change: Examining the Role of Representation in the Communication between Protesters and Third‐party Members
Within social psychology, it has been proposed that to understand how collective action creates social change, it is relevant to examine the role that other members of society can have on it. However, few studies have empirically examined that. We argue that for that task, it is useful, first, and as some authors have already argued, to go beyond the sole analysis of the two‐sided inter‐group relations creating collective action; and second, to a…
Emplacing linked lives: A qualitative approach to understanding the co‐evolution of residential mobility and place attachment formation over time
Despite growing interest in issues of residential mobility and place attachment in a globalised world, research within Environmental and Community psychology has tended to overlook the ways that interpersonal relations, and wider socio‐political and economic structural factors inform place attachment formation amongst residentially mobile individuals. We address this gap drawing on the Human Geography concept of ‘Linked Lives’ (Coulter et al., Pr…
Towards a sustainable grid development regime? A comparison of British, Norwegian, and Swedish grid development
Public beliefs about high-voltage powerlines in Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom: A comparative survey
Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project
Scepticism about the value of parochialism and local belonging has been a persistent feature of geographical scholarship, which has advocated a relational account of place and a cosmopolitan worldview. This paper revisits the Parish Maps project that was instigated in 1987 by UK arts and environment charity Common Ground, which led to the creation of thousands of maps across the UK and beyond, and was appraised in 1996 by Crouch and Matless in th…
Solar industrialization, ‘sacrifice zones,’ and new environmental movements: Emerging discourses of commonality and critique in Portugal’s energy transition
The transition to renewable energy is being pursued within neoliberal frameworks that prioritize market competition and industrial development, increasingly resulting in significant negative socio-ecological consequences and environmental injustices. As a result, scholars and activists are increasingly taking up more radical discursive strategies, adopting critical terms like ‘sacrifice zone,’ to describe marginalized places. In short, critiques …
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements
To understand social issues and practices such as those related to climate change and technological change that are clearly future‐oriented – collectively experienced events that are “not yet” – and co‐constructed by different actors, we need nuanced conceptualizations of how people think about, negotiate and co‐create futures that allow us to understand not only what people (can) think and do about future‐related issues but also how that happens…
Participar Está Na Moda: Uma Abordagem Psicossocial Dos Orçamentos Participativos
Autores têm apontado para como os processos de participação institucionalizados poderão não ser verdadeiramente participativos. Este estudo analisa factores estruturais condicionantes destes processos, tendencialmente esquecidos nos estudos sobre a participação no âmbito da Psicologia Social, através de análise exploratória das sessões de Orçamento Participativo (OP) em três municípios em Portugal. Partindo de uma perspectiva etnográfica, procurá…
Understanding Short and Long Mobilities Together: Place Attachment and Community Dynamics in Mouraria, Lisbon
The increase in mobilities over the last decades has facilitated the circulation of people, with short‐ and long‐term mobility practices often intertwining in the same destinations. Alongside migration processes of long‐term mobility to search for better living conditions, short mobility processes, such as touristification, started to significantly shape some cities and their communities in Southern Europe. This study examines place attachments, …
Rural communities’ energy metabolisms in Portugal: Between territorial injustices and far-right populism
In the last decades, rural areas have been centerstage of a critical energy social sciences’ research agenda, as the local resistance to the injustices of the renewable energy transition has increased. At the same time, far-right populism and related rhetoric against migrants and minorities has been on the rise across the world, often making use of rural communities’ concerns and deprivations. However, the relations between far-right populism, it…
Social Representation, Change and Resistance: On the Difficulties of Generalizing New Norms
This article addresses the difficulties of generalizing new norms and practices, focusing on the role of the legal system for proposing change and innovation to society. It first presents some contributions offered by the social representational approach for understanding these issues, based on the assumptions of the interdependence both of change and stability, and of the social and the individual. Afterwards it is argued that for advancing the …
A Social Representations Approach To The Communication Between Different Spheres: An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Two Discursive Formats
This paper discusses the potential of the notions of reification and consensualization as developed by the theory of social representations as analytical tools for addressing the communication between the lay and scientific spheres. Social Representations Theory started by offering an over‐sharp distinction between the reified and the consensual universes of which science and common sense, respectively, were presented as paradigmatic. This paper,…
Explaining public preferences for high voltage pylon designs: An empirical study of perceived fit in a rural landscape
Public beliefs about high-voltage powerlines in Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom: A comparative survey
Collective Action and Social Change: Examining the Role of Representation in the Communication between Protesters and Third‐party Members
Within social psychology, it has been proposed that to understand how collective action creates social change, it is relevant to examine the role that other members of society can have on it. However, few studies have empirically examined that. We argue that for that task, it is useful, first, and as some authors have already argued, to go beyond the sole analysis of the two‐sided inter‐group relations creating collective action; and second, to a…
Towards a better understanding of people’s responses to renewable energy technologies: Insights from Social Representations Theory
In the past few years, social research has been examining what contributes to the attitude-behaviour gap in people's responses to large-scale renewable energy technologies. The NIMBY explanation for the gap has long dominated that area of research, but has also been criticised. Alternative proposals to NIMBY were advanced, but it is still evident that some of those maintain presuppositions of NIMBY and that this area of research needs more integr…
Estou mais seguro na minha cidade do que os outros: Identidade Com O Lugar E Optimismo Comparativo Na Percepção De Riscos Urbanos
Esta pesquisa pretendeu estudar o optimismo comparativo face aos riscos urbanos e explorar o papel que a identificação com a cidade de residência tem neste processo. O estudo foi realizado através de um inquérito a 156 estudantes universitários, residentes em Lisboa, Huelva e Lyon. Os resultados revelaram a existência de optimismo comparativo face a todos os riscos urbanos considerados (carteirismo, assalto da casa, terrorismo e queda de avião): …
Técnico e cidadão, eis a questão: Um Caso De Participação Pública No Espaço Urbano
Neste trabalho pretendemos analisar uma controvérsia relativa ao património construído das cidades e à participação do público, que envolveu os sistemas técnico e leigo. Trata-se da controvérsia relativa ao Convento dos Inglesinhos, um conjunto patrimonial do século XVII que ocupa um quarteirão do Bairro Alto, um dos bairros mais emblemáticos de Lisboa, e para o qual está actualmente prevista a transformação num condomínio residencial fechado de …
Towards a sustainable grid development regime? A comparison of British, Norwegian, and Swedish grid development
Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK
Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories
Debates over the value and compatibility of different approaches to understanding and changing environmental‐relevant actions proliferate across the social sciences. This article reviews and discusses some of the (socio‐)psychological and sociological approaches in those debates. We will start by critically reviewing the (socio‐)psychological perspectives, highlighting two main shortcomings. First, they are often partial in their focus—concentrat…
Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions: Contributions from Social Representations and Social Practices Theories
In the article cited above, on page 739, an error was made in Figure 2. The text “SRT” (in blue box) should have read as “SPT.” The correct figure is provided below
A conceptual framework for understanding the social acceptance of energy infrastructure: Insights from energy storage
My neighbourhood, my country or my planet? The influence of multiple place attachments and climate change concern on social acceptance of energy infrastructure
Energy Colonialism and the Role of the Global in Local Responses to New Energy Infrastructures in the UK: A Critical and Exploratory Empirical Analysis
Governments, namely in the global North, are fostering the deployment of large-scale low carbon and associated energy infrastructures (EIs), such as power lines, to mitigate climate change. However, when infrastructures are to be deployed, opposition is often found. Environmental justice—involving issues of distributive and procedural justice and recognition—and associated inter-group relations, has been identified as a key aspect for local oppos…
A critical discussion of research on the social acceptance of renewable energy generation and associated infrastructures and an agenda for the future
Social sciences’ research on the social acceptance of renewable energy generation and associated technologies (RET), such as high voltage power lines, has been growing in the last decades. In fact, while RET are considered one of the main mitigation measures of climate change, opposition to their construction, and namely from the local communities living nearby, is often found. Important conceptual proposals have been made for a better understand…
Populism, identities and responses to energy infrastructures at different scales in the United Kingdom: A post-Brexit reflection
Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project
Scepticism about the value of parochialism and local belonging has been a persistent feature of geographical scholarship, which has advocated a relational account of place and a cosmopolitan worldview. This paper revisits the Parish Maps project that was instigated in 1987 by UK arts and environment charity Common Ground, which led to the creation of thousands of maps across the UK and beyond, and was appraised in 1996 by Crouch and Matless in th…
Participar Está Na Moda: Uma Abordagem Psicossocial Dos Orçamentos Participativos
Autores têm apontado para como os processos de participação institucionalizados poderão não ser verdadeiramente participativos. Este estudo analisa factores estruturais condicionantes destes processos, tendencialmente esquecidos nos estudos sobre a participação no âmbito da Psicologia Social, através de análise exploratória das sessões de Orçamento Participativo (OP) em três municípios em Portugal. Partindo de uma perspectiva etnográfica, procurá…
Using Nimby rhetoric as a political resource to negotiate responses to local energy infrastructure: A power line case study
Research has shown how the NIMBY explanation for local opposition to energy infrastructures has made its way into the discourses of developers, policy makers, the media and active protesters. However, few studies have explored how community members draw on discourses of NIMBYism to interpret and negotiate responses to local energy proposals. We address this gap drawing on qualitative data from two UK case studies. Analyses show that NIMBY, as a r…
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future
A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures: Going beyond green growth and sustainability
Emplacing linked lives: A qualitative approach to understanding the co‐evolution of residential mobility and place attachment formation over time
Despite growing interest in issues of residential mobility and place attachment in a globalised world, research within Environmental and Community psychology has tended to overlook the ways that interpersonal relations, and wider socio‐political and economic structural factors inform place attachment formation amongst residentially mobile individuals. We address this gap drawing on the Human Geography concept of ‘Linked Lives’ (Coulter et al., Pr…
The ‘Urban Village’ versus the ‘City for Profit’: Querying Nimby through a comparative analysis of touristification in Lisbon and Madrid
Southern European cities face the challenges associated with the recent emergence of the formal and informal economies of the ‘Tourist City’ and are the scenario for diverse social tensions. Local protests against these changes, sometimes discredited as NIMBY –Not In My Backyard– have led to conflicts with visitors and local public administrations. However, fuzzy definitions of the groups organising these protests are often found in the literatur…
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe
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 discip…
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Social science (11 works)