Less Is Not Enough
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-58780-9 (ISBN)
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Examining the rise of minimalist self-help, Miriam Meissner shows how it depoliticizes middle-class frustrations with capitalist exploitation, and proposes a cultural strategy to channel minimalist desires into a more radical, postgrowth politics.
In the past decade minimalist self-help has exploded, from tidying guides to media detoxes which promise to help affluent middle classes navigate a world of excess - too much clutter, stress, and distraction.
Less Is Not Enough exposes the limits of minimalism in addressing both middle-class overload and the environmental crisis. Through a critical analysis of self-help books, TV shows, and online communities, it argues that while minimalism is well-intended, it ultimately distracts from the root causes of the very problems it seeks to alleviate. Trends like decluttering and mindfulness depoliticize middle-class frustrations with the capitalist exploitation of labour, attention, and ecology for profit. In an era where climate justice and class struggle are inseparable, Meissner proposes an eco-political strategy that refuses to pit middle-class interests against the demands of a just green transition.
Drawing on cultural studies and political ecology, the book reveals how affluent minimalists seek emancipation and argues for redirecting these desires away from individualistic self-help toward a collective postgrowth politics.
Miriam Meissner is Assistant Professor of Culture and Political Ecology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. She authored Narrating the Global Financial Crisis (2017) and co-edited Global Garbage (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries (2018). Her current research focuses on postgrowth and cultural politics.
Preface: Postgrowth Against Postfascism?
Introduction: Too Much and Too Little—The Unease of the Affluent
1. Desire for Less: Minimalist Choices Beyond Consumer Democracy
2. Desire for Resonance: Minimalist Performance Beyond Tidying
5. Desire for Experience: Minimalist Attention Beyond Self-Focus
4. Desire for Idleness: Minimalist Withdrawal Beyond Productivism
5. Desire for Liberation: Minimalist Well-Being Beyond Privilege
Conclusion: Who Will Organise the Liberation?
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-58780-X / 135058780X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-58780-9 / 9781350587809 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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