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9788395720499
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8395720491
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Benefits The volume establishes a dynamic interplay between two high-level research fields: humanistic climate studies and genre research The volume offer an understanding of the way the structural and ideological issues in the debate over anthropogenic climate change are determined by the genres in play in the debate. The volume continues key developments in contemporary genre research, in particular the use of genre in political campaigning and the uptake of genre information and action across genre systems. The greatest conundrum concerning anthropogenic climate change may prove to be in the humanities and the social sciences. How is it even possible that highly exigent information for which overwhelming evidence exists does not make an immediate and strong impact on ideologies, policies, and life practices across the globe? This volume offers an intriguing and enlightening new approach to the the climate debate by taking it as a question of genre. Genres are the cultural categories that structure human understanding and communication, and genre research therefore offers a central key to unlocking the conundrum. From a genre perspective, if there is one thing the climate debate demonstrates, it is the inertia inherent in genre use. Patterns of understanding and interpretation once established seem to carry on even when they have long outlived their usefulness. However, it is also evident that uses of genre can work to change this inertia.Genres play a vital role in human interaction, as we use them to learn, express ourselves, and to act. How individual actors utilize or manipulates genres determines to what extent knowledge of climate change spreads from the scientific community to the public, how it is debated, and to what extent it leads to positive action.
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1. Introduction: Genre in the Climate Debate --
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2. Genre for Social Action: Transforming Worlds Through Genre Awareness and Action --
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3. Scientific Knowledge, Public Knowledge, and Public Policy: How Genres Form and Disrupt Knowledge for Acting about Anthropogenic Climate Change --
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4. How The US Congress Knows and Evades Knowing About Anthropogenic Climate Change: The Record Created in Committee Hearings, 2004-2016 --
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5. Genre, Uptake, and the Recontextualization of Climate Change Science by 'Denialist' Cultural Communities --
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6. "THINK BIG and then do absolutely NÜSCHTE". News Satire and the Climate Debate --
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7. "This will all be yours -- and under water": Climate Change Depictions in Editorial Cartoons --
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8. "How to Turn Accumulated Knowledge into Action": Uptake, Public Petitions, and the Climate Change Debate --
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9. Rogue Rhetorical Actors: Scientists and the Social Action of Tweeting --
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10. Genre, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and the Need to Smell your Body Odor. A Personal Postscript --
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