“Objective” numbers in energy research: Trust, order, governing and methodology
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Energy Research and Social Science, 2023, 106, pp. 103310
- Issue Date:
- 2023-12
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To expand the discussion on energy research methods this article unpacks some of the oppositions created and encountered while investigating energy at the coalface It sheds light on uneasy encounters that are framed through the use and employment of numbers Numbers are utilised as a rhetoric and power political tool especially in fields related to engineering and natural sciences They emerge as a quantitative representation for objectivity and are used as a technology of governance Understanding and critically examining how numbers work and are being worked in energy systems provides a reflection on and recommendations of how researchers can deal with allegedly objective numbers in on the ground research to enable a more nuanced and less restraint convergence of views from natural and social sciences
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