Editorial

The Special Section that follows focuses on temporal agency and does so in a new way through the idea of 'time-tricking'. This collection of articles, guest edited by Felix Ringel and Roxanne Morosanu, draws ethnographic attention to ways in which people attempt to modify, manage, bend, speed up, slow down or otherwise structure or restructure the times they are living in. Examples are taken from the UK, Greece and Yemen. The 'deadlines' that journal production imposes readily become part of the ethnography, too. More generally, Laura Bear's Afterword to this section suggests that a focus on time-tricking can help us to understand the technologies of imagination, the ethics and the inequalities of what is generally seen as secular and 'capitalist' modern time.