Felix Ringel is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Durham University. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in two German postindustrial cities: Hoyerswerda, the GDR’s former second socialist model city and, more recently, Germany’s fastest shrinking city; and Bremerhaven, Germany’s poorest city, currently aspiring to urban sustainability. In these settings he asks how urban communities overcome postindustrial decline by developing new relationships with the future. Ringel’s work has been published in journals such as The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Critique of Anthropology, Anthropological Theory and Time & Society. He is the author of Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany’s Fastest-Shrinking City and the co-editor of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology’s special issue on “Time-Tricking: Reconsidering Temporal Agency in Troubled Times.”