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  • The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism

    The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does by Adams, Carol J.; Crary, Alice; Gruen, Lori;

    Critical Essays on Effective Altruism

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 15 May 2023

    • ISBN 9780197655696
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages310 pages
    • Size 235x140x21 mm
    • Weight 499 g
    • Language English
    • 462

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    Short description:

    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.

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    The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first edited 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. By drawing attention to these responses and to particular cases of human and animal harms, this book represents a powerful call to attend to different voices and projects and to elevate activist traditions that EA lacks the resources to assess and threatens to squelch. The contributors reveal the weakness inherent within the ready-made, top-down solutions that EA offers in response to many global problems-and offers in their place substantial descriptions of more meaningful and just social engagement.

    The entries of this book truly help draw attention to just how dangerous EA is...All in all, reading this book would benefit just about anyone.

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    Table of Contents:

    Foreword: Amia Srinivisan
    Introduction: Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen
    Acknowledgements
    1 How Effective Altruism Fails Community-Based Activism
    Brenda Sanders
    2 Effective Altruism's Unsuspecting 21st Century Colonialism
    Simone De Lima
    3 Anti-Blackness and the Effective Altruist
    Christopher Sebastian
    4 Animal Advocacy's Stockholm Syndrome
    DeCoriolis, Aaron S. Gross, Steve J. Gross, and Joseph Tuminello (Farm Forward)
    5 Who Counts? Effective Altruism and the Problem of Numbers in the History of American Wildlife Conservation
    Michael D. Wise
    6 Diversifying Effective Altruism Longshots in Animal Advocacy: An Invitation to Prioritize Black Vegans, Higher Education, and Religious Communities
    Matthew C. Halteman
    7 A Christian Critique of the Effective Altruism Approach to Animal Philanthropy
    David L. Clough
    8 Queer Eye on the EA Guys
    pattrice jones
    9 A Feminist-Ethics-of-Care Critique of Effective Altruism
    Carol J. Adams
    10 The Empty Promises of Cultured Meat
    Elan Abrell
    11 How 'Alternative Proteins' Create a Private Solution to a Public Problem
    Michele Simon
    12 The Power of Love to Transform Animal Lives: The Deception of Animal Quantification
    Krista Hiddema
    13 Our Partners, The Animals: Reflections from a Farmed Animal Sanctuary
    Kathy Stevens
    14 The Wisdom Gained from Animals Who Self-Liberate
    Rachel McCrystal
    15 Effective Altruism and the Reified Mind
    John Sanbonmatsu
    16 Against 'Effective Altruism'
    Alice Crary
    17 The Change We Need
    Lori Gruen
    Coda: Future-oriented Effective Altruism: What's wrong with longtermism?
    Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen

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