Just Enough

The History, Culture and Politics of Sufficiency
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-137-56209-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 137 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of ‘enough’. Acknowledging the prominence of notions of sufficiency in debates about sustainability, it argues for a more complex, culturally and historically informed understanding of how these might be manifested across a wide array of contexts. Rather than simply adding further case studies of sufficiency in order to prove the efficacy of what might be called ‘finite planet economics’, the book holds up to the light a crucial ‘keyword’ within the sustainability discourse, tracing its origins and anatomising its current repertoire of usages. Chapters focus on the sufficiency of food, drink and clothing to track the concept of 'enough' from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
By expanding the historical and cultural scope of sufficiency, this book fills a significant gap in the current market for authors, students and the wider informed audience who want to more deeply understand the changing and developing use of this term.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Randalls, Samuel

Ingleby, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I:1. Introduction- Samuel Randalls and Matthew Ingleby2. Enough: A Lexical-Semantic approach- Kathryn AllanPart II:3. Enough-ness in the later Middle Ages- Hannah Skoda4. Daily Bread: Ideas of Sufficiency in Early Modern England- Ethan ShaganPart III:5. Sufficiency and Simplicity in the Life and Writings of Edward Carpenter- Wendy Parkins6. ‘These are the cases who call themselves “moderate drinkers,” because they are never seen embracing a lamp-post.’ The problem of moderate drinking in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain- James KnealePart IV7. Fashion acolytes or environmental saviours? When will young people have had ‘enough’?- Rebecca Collins8. What would a sufficiency economy look like?- Samuel Alexander

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Ingleby is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous published works include G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity (Bloomsbury 2013), Bloomsbury: Beyond the Establishment (British Library Publishing, 2017) and the upcoming Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). His research focuses on the cultural meditation of urban and coastal space in the nineteenth century. Samuel Randalls is a Lecturer in Human Geography at University College London and has previously co-edited a four-volume reader on Future Climate Change (Routledge, 2012) and the Handbook of the Political Economy of Science (Routledge, 2017). His research focuses on the historical, contemporary and future relationships between environments, businesses/economics and science.