The good it promises, the harm it does : critical essays on effective altruism / Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Carol J., author.

Crary, Alice, author.

Gruen, Lori, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal rights--United States.

Animal rights.

Anti-racism--United States.

Anti-racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-765573-4

0-19-765571-8

0-19-765572-6