“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.” — Kate Soper, London Metropolitan University

“While ‘Less is Not Enough’ criticises the cultural politics of minimalist lifestyles, and finds purveyors of ‘doing less’ both culpable and complicit with capitalism’s latest demands, it also reveals a middle-class that is agitated, discontented and unsatisfied with its own diminishing. Meissner’s daring conviction is that in the desire for minimalism lies a hope that might otherwise be channeled or transformed into a wider, and more radical and inclusive, postgrowth politics.” — Mark Banks, University of Glasgow

“What if popular culture becomes the central arena of struggle against growth capitalism? In this incisive book, Miriam Meissner brings Cultural Theory into dialogue with Political Ecology to reclaim mass culture as a key battleground for postgrowth futures.” — Maria Kaika, University of Amsterdam