The good it promises, the harm it does critical essays on effective altruism
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first book-length volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and community organizing efforts and reveals the we...
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first book-length volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and community organizing efforts and reveals the weakness inherent within the readymade, top-down solutions that EA offers in response to many global problems. Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. How Effective Altruism Fails Community-Based Activism -- 2. Effective Altruism's Unsuspecting Twenty-First-Century Colonialism -- 3. Anti-Blackness and the Effective Altruist -- 4. Animal Advocacy's Stockholm Syndrome -- 5. Who Counts? Effective Altruism and the Problem of Numbers in the History of American Wildlife Conservation -- 6. Diversifying Effective Altruism's Long Shots in Animal Advocacy: An Invitation to Prioritize Black Vegans, Higher Education, and Religious Communities -- 7. A Christian Critique of the Effective Altruism Approach to Animal Philanthropy -- 8. Queer Eye on the EA Guys -- 9. A Feminist Ethics of Care Critique of Effective Altruism -- 10. The Empty Promises of Cultured Meat -- 11. How "Alternative Proteins" Create a Private Solution to a Public Problem -- 12. The Power of Love to Transform Animal Lives: The Deception of Animal Quantification -- 13. Our Partners, The Animals: Reflections from a Farmed Animal Sanctuary -- 14. The Wisdom Gained from Animals Who Self-Liberate -- 15. Effective Altruism and the Reified Mind -- 16. Against "Effective Altruism" -- 17. The Change We Need -- Coda-Future-Oriented Effective Altruism: What's Wrong with Longtermism? -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | xxx, 280 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780197655702 978-0-19-765570-2 9780197655696 978-0-19-765569-6 |