Miriam Meissner is Assistant Professor of Culture and Political Ecology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her previous publications include Narrating the Global Financial Crisis (2017), Global Garbage (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries (2018). Her current research focuses on postgrowth and cultural politics.

"This pioneering exploration of minimalist practices and their possible future political role provides a much needed addition to current literature on sustainable consumption and the promotion of a less-growth driven consumption. Writers, like Meissner, who are willing to go beyond deploring the environmental consequences of affluent living in order to focus on the possible agents of improvement and social transformation, are few and far between. When they produce a book as good as this, they deserve to be read."

• Preface: Postgrowth Against Postfascism? Introduction: Too Much and Too Little—The Unease of the Affluent1. Desire for Less: Minimalist Choices Beyond Consumer Democracy2. Desire for Resonance: Minimalist Performance Beyond Tidying5. Desire for Experience: Minimalist Attention Beyond Self-Focus4. Desire for Idleness: Minimalist Withdrawal Beyond Productivism5. Desire for Liberation: Minimalist Well-Being Beyond PrivilegeConclusion: Who Will Organise the Liberation?Index

Miriam Meissner is Assistant Professor of Culture and Political Ecology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her previous publications include Narrating the Global Financial Crisis (2017), Global Garbage (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries (2018). Her current research focuses on postgrowth and cultural politics.

"This pioneering exploration of minimalist practices and their possible future political role provides a much needed addition to current literature on sustainable consumption and the promotion of a less-growth driven consumption. Writers, like Meissner, who are willing to go beyond deploring the environmental consequences of affluent living in order to focus on the possible agents of improvement and social transformation, are few and far between. When they produce a book as good as this, they deserve to be read."

• Preface: Postgrowth Against Postfascism? Introduction: Too Much and Too Little—The Unease of the Affluent1. Desire for Less: Minimalist Choices Beyond Consumer Democracy2. Desire for Resonance: Minimalist Performance Beyond Tidying5. Desire for Experience: Minimalist Attention Beyond Self-Focus4. Desire for Idleness: Minimalist Withdrawal Beyond Productivism5. Desire for Liberation: Minimalist Well-Being Beyond PrivilegeConclusion: Who Will Organise the Liberation?Index

Miriam Meissner is Assistant Professor of Culture and Political Ecology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her previous publications include Narrating the Global Financial Crisis (2017), Global Garbage (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries (2018). Her current research focuses on postgrowth and cultural politics.

"This pioneering exploration of minimalist practices and their possible future political role provides a much needed addition to current literature on sustainable consumption and the promotion of a less-growth driven consumption. Writers, like Meissner, who are willing to go beyond deploring the environmental consequences of affluent living in order to focus on the possible agents of improvement and social transformation, are few and far between. When they produce a book as good as this, they deserve to be read."

• Preface: Postgrowth Against Postfascism? Introduction: Too Much and Too Little—The Unease of the Affluent1. Desire for Less: Minimalist Choices Beyond Consumer Democracy2. Desire for Resonance: Minimalist Performance Beyond Tidying5. Desire for Experience: Minimalist Attention Beyond Self-Focus4. Desire for Idleness: Minimalist Withdrawal Beyond Productivism5. Desire for Liberation: Minimalist Well-Being Beyond PrivilegeConclusion: Who Will Organise the Liberation?Index