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So­cial and in­tel­lec­tual movements

TagLast edit: 20 Jun 2022 12:50 UTC by Leo

The social and intellectual movements tag applies to posts that discuss how other social and intellectual movements relate to effective altruism. For example, they might discuss:

Further reading

Aird, Michael (2020) Collection of EA analyses of how social social movements rise, fall, can be influential, etc., Effective Altruism Forum, March 26.
Many additional resources on this topic or related topics.

Della Porta, Donatella & Mario Diani (eds.) (2015) The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Klandermans, Bert & Conny Roggeband (eds.) (2010) Handbook of Social Movements across Disciplines, New York: Springer Science+Business Media.

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Ini­tial re­search on so­cial move­ments & protest

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6 comments12 min readEA link

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0 comments3 min readEA link

Protest move­ments: How effec­tive are they?

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1 comment4 min readEA link

[Question] What are some ex­am­ples of suc­cess­ful so­cial change?

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31 points
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So­cial Move­ment Les­sons from the US Pri­son­ers’ Rights Movement

Jamie_Harris22 Jul 2020 12:10 UTC
32 points
3 comments132 min readEA link
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Rad­i­cal tac­tics can in­crease sup­port for more mod­er­ate groups

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92 points
18 comments15 min readEA link

The Fabian so­ciety was weirdly similar to the EA movement

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Why do so­cial move­ments fail: Two con­crete ex­am­ples.

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0 comments42 min readEA link
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122 points
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63 points
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119 points
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21 points
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26 points
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11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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9 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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66 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
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20 points
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30 points
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129 points
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3 comments4 min readEA link
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147 points
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11 points
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0 comments1 min readEA link

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4 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
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