Just Enough
The History, Culture and Politics of Sufficiency
Editors: Ingleby, Matthew, Randalls, Samuel (Eds.)
Free Preview- Explores concepts of enough and sufficiency historically and culturally.
- Focuses on topics from medieval sufficiency to contemporary austerity that all cohere around their engagement with the concept of enough.
- Challenges contemporary debates on sustainability to think critically about concepts such as enough and sufficiency.
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- About this book
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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. - About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Just Enough: An Introduction
Pages 3-12
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Enough: A Lexical-Semantic Approach
Pages 13-25
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Enough-ness in the Later Middle Ages
Pages 29-46
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Daily Bread: Ideas of Sufficiency in Early Modern England
Pages 47-59
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Sufficiency and Simplicity in the Life and Writings of Edward Carpenter
Pages 63-76
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Just Enough
- Book Subtitle
- The History, Culture and Politics of Sufficiency
- Editors
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- Matthew Ingleby
- Samuel Randalls
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-56210-4
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-56210-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-56209-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-85081-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 137
- Topics
