Latest update: 22 April 2024
Years ago, I compiled a list of writings by members of the EA community focused on fields and movements of interest to EA. The list seems to have spread organically and every couple of months someone messages me with comments or questions about it. Although the list is probably incomplete, it seems sufficiently comprehensive to justify publication on the EA Forum. Please let me know, by contacting me or leaving a comment, if you notice any omissions.
An Appendix to the post highlights some fields and movements that might be useful to investigate but have so far received little or no EA attention.
The list
American geriatrics
- Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Animal rights movement
- Clifton (2016) Lessons from the history of animal rights
- Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Anti-abortion movement
Anti-death-penalty movement
Anti-nuclear movement
Antislavery movement
- Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) The British antislavery movement and the abolition of the slave trade in 1807
- Anthis & Anthis (2017) Social movement lessons from the British antislavery movement
- Mauricio (2020) What helped the voiceless? Historical case studies
Behavioral economics
- Stafforini (2018) Behavioral economics
Bioethics
- Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Children's rights
- Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) Children's rights
Christianity
- Vallinder (2018) The rise of early Christianity
Confucianism
- Vallinder (2018) Confucius vs Mozi
Conservative legal movement
- Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Cryonics
- Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Effective philanthropy
- Cold Button Issues (2022) Before there was effective altruism, there was effective philanthropy
Environmentalism
- Animal Charity Evaluators (2018) Environmentalism
- Carlsmith (2018) What can the existential risk community learn from environmentalism?
- Mauricio (2020) What helped the voiceless? Historical case studies
- Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Evidence-based medicine
- Hadshar (2018) Evidence-based medicine
Fabianism
- Alexander (2018) Book review: History of the Fabian Society
Fair trade
- Harris (2021) Social movement lessons from the fair trade movement
Fat acceptance movement
- Lueke (2018) Fat activism
General semantics
- Sempere (2019) Why do social movements fail: Two concrete examples
Marriage equality
Mohism
- Vallinder (2018) Confucius vs Mozi
Molecular nanotechnology
- Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
Neoliberalism
- Muehlhauser (2017) Some case studies in early field growth
- Vaughan (2016) What the EA community can learn from the rise of the neoliberals
New atheism
- Alexander (2017) How did new atheism fail so miserably?
Prisoner human rights movement
Rationalist movement
Scientific charity movement
- Kaufman (2016) Scientific charity movement
Spanish Enlightenment
- Sempere (2019) Why do social movements fail: Two concrete examples
Appendix
Some fields and movements EAs may want to study more:
- Chartism
- Civil rights movement
- Cognitive revolution
- Communism
- The Cypherpunks
- Efficiency movement
- Evolutionary psychology
- Experimental philosophy
- FIRE movement[1]
- Georgism
- Global justice movement
- Life extension
- Marxism
- Objectivism
- Open science (esp. open access and open source)
- Operations Research[2]
- Philosophical radicals
- Positivism
- Technocracy movement
- Temperance movement
- Utopian socialism
- Women rights movement
- World federalism
- Zionism
See also this list by Luke Muehlhauser.
- ^
See this comment by Tyner for an explanation of why this movement may be worth studying.
- ^
See this post by wesg for some background.
RE: Fat acceptance/size acceptance
Outside of the writings this post links to within this forum, there are a few sources that provide a comprehensive look at the issues surrounding this movement that might be useful to anyone beginning an investigation. I have listed them below with the first entry providing a quick introduction to the issue. For those with more time the remaining sources are books that provide a more in-depth examination of fat acceptance and the influence of the diet industry from varying perspectives.
Michael Orsini and Deborah McPhail “Fat Acceptance As Social Justice” (CMAJ 2021)—a short two page overview of the intersections of the fat acceptance movements with social justice issues
Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019)
Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body is Not An Apology (2nd edition 2021)
Christy Harrison, Anti-Diet (2019)
Alison Rumsey, Unapologetic Eating (2021)
Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (2021)