8. “How to Turn Accumulated Knowledge into Action”: Uptake, Public Petitions, and the Climate Change Debate

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. 1. Introduction: Genre in the Climate Debate 1
5. 2. Genre for Social Action: Transforming Worlds Through Genre Awareness and Action 17
6. 3. Scientific Knowledge, Public Knowledge, and Public Policy: How Genres Form and Disrupt Knowledge for Acting about Anthropogenic Climate Change 34
7. 4. How The US Congress Knows and Evades Knowing About Anthropogenic Climate Change: The Record Created in Committee Hearings, 2004–2016 51
8. 5. Genre, Uptake, and the Recontextualization of Climate Change Science by ‘Denialist’ Cultural Communities 85
9. 6. “THINK BIG and then do absolutely NÜSCHTE”. News Satire and the Climate Debate 108
10. 7. “This will all be yours – and under water”: Climate Change Depictions in Editorial Cartoons 129
11. 8. “How to Turn Accumulated Knowledge into Action”: Uptake, Public Petitions, and the Climate Change Debate 150
12. 9. Rogue Rhetorical Actors: Scientists and the Social Action of Tweeting 179
13. 10. Genre, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and the Need to Smell your Body Odor. A Personal Postscript 194
14. About the Contributors 198