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

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780197655719
Related ISBNs:: 9780197655726, 9780197655702, 9780197655696
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/02/23
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Carol J. Adams
Edited by:: Alice Crary
Edited by:: Lori Gruen