Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.Bob Simpson is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.

• Introduction: The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics and Chronocracy 1. Migrant Imaginaries, Multiple Selves, and the Varieties of Temporal Experience 2. The Tree and the Net: Spatio-Temporal Narratives of Human Population Genomics 3. The Pulverous State: Chronocracy and Affect in the Politics of Environmental Risk in Italy 4. Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era 5. Depressing Time: Waiting, Melancholia, and the Psychoanalytic Practice of Care 6. Monsoon Uncertainties, Hydro-Chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka 7. Partial Decomposition: Peat and its Life Cycles 8. Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-Colony 9. The Moment Ethnography Becomes Past: De-temporalising Ethnographic Nostalgia

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