The Social Life of Solar: An Interpretive Synthesis of Meaning-Making in Energy Transitions
太陽光の社会的な生：エネルギー転換における意味形成の解釈的統合 (AI 翻訳)
Sophie Harawa, Musaka Mulanga Chikobola, Francis Simui, John Chenjelani Phiri
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日本語
本研究は、サブサハラ・アフリカにおける太陽光発電の家庭導入を、技術的・経済的要因だけでなく、社会的意味形成の観点から解釈する。批判的解釈統合により47件の研究を分析し、可視性、日常的実践、信頼、物語の循環など5つの構成概念を抽出した。太陽光が地域社会の規範や信頼に影響され、普及に社会的要因が重要であることを示す。
English
This study examines household adoption of solar PV in Sub-Saharan Africa through a social lens, using Critical Interpretive Synthesis of 47 studies. It identifies five constructs: visibility, everyday practices, normality, trust, and narrative circulation. Findings show that social meanings, norms, and trust significantly shape adoption, complementing technical and economic explanations. The framework offers guidance for socially responsive energy policy.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本では太陽光普及が進むが、社会的受容性や地域コミュニティの関与が課題。本論文の社会的要因の枠組みは、日本の地域共生型再エネ導入政策や住民合意形成に示唆を与える。
In the global GX context
Globally, energy transition research increasingly recognizes social dimensions. This study provides a framework for understanding adoption beyond economics, relevant for community-based renewable projects and just transition policies worldwide.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides an interpretive framework for studying social dimensions of renewable energy adoption, useful for qualitative energy research.
🏢実務担当者:Highlights social factors (trust, visibility, norms) that can inform community engagement strategies for solar projects.
🏛政策担当者:Suggests that energy policies should address social norms and community narratives to enhance adoption.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Solar photovoltaic technologies are expanding across Sub-Saharan Africa through donor investment, business innovation, entrepreneurial activity, and supportive policy, yet household adoption is often explained mainly through technical, economic, and policy factors. This study examines the social life of solar photovoltaic technology by exploring how households interpret, negotiate, and incorporate it into everyday life. Guided by hermeneutic phenomenology and Social Norms Theory, the study employed Critical Interpretive Synthesis to consolidate 47 conceptually relevant studies from international and Zambia-relevant literature. The synthesis generated five interconnected interpretive constructs: solar photovoltaic technology as a publicly visible social artefact, participation through everyday energy practices, the social construction of normality, narratives of trust, risk, and reliability, and narrative circulation as social infrastructure. The findings show that solar photovoltaic technology acquires meaning not only through electricity generation but also through lived experience, visibility, peer interaction, trust, community narratives, and shared expectations. Visibility stimulates discussion, narratives shape trust and social norms, and everyday participation reproduces shared meanings around renewable energy. The study contributes an integrated interpretive framework that extends technical and economic explanations of adoption and offers conceptual guidance for future empirical research and socially responsive energy-transition policy in Zambia and comparable Sub-Saharan African contexts.
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