{"id":81,"date":"2021-02-16T15:02:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncommoningintheandes.climateactionchildhood.net\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2021-03-09T22:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:40:42","slug":"temporalities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uncommoningintheandes.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/temporalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch\u2019ixi temporalities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Considering temporalities in Andean childhoods<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Traced stories of the ongoing life of milk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cow-Ca\u00f1ari relations juxtapose and interrupt practices of slow procedural attention that cultivating and harvesting a portion of land entail. Daily rhythms are driven by a cow that has been formed and genetically modified (see Vizcarra et al., 2015) for capital growth and triumph. Valued by how much milk they can produce, cows participate in reshaping Andean temporalities. Milking demands immediate, rapid labour that cannot be ignored or postponed, and its returns are quick but meagre. The efficiency and immediacy of the dairy industry produce material\/subjective configurations that shape and structure the rhythms of Ca\u00f1ari daily life. Ironically, these capitalist temporalities that govern milk production are also expansive. For example, the women mentioned that they now have a lot of \u201cfree time\u201d between milking sessions to do other jobs in a nearby town. What is relevant here is that, as Sagan describes, \u201ceach individual life is normatively envisioned as teleological, and its telos <\/em>is conceived as a goal of production and reproduction\u2014as (re)producing a specific economy of power that imagines itself as the only natural and valuable one\u201d (2019: 146).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children actively participate in milk production and are deeply entangled in these neocapitalist temporalities that are constantly shaped and reshaped by \u201cprogress\u201d in the Andes. Immediacy, speed and efficiency were the dominant narratives children expressed during our conversations. Like Gabriel and Daniel, other Ca\u00f1ari children spoke over and over again about how they are learning to become more effective in milk production to increase quick returns. Over the course of several drawing sessions, children traced stories of the ongoing life of milk once it leaves el campo<\/em> (the field), emphasizing how the lechero takes it to la planta<\/em> (the production plant), machines put the milk into bags, and then trucks drive it to the store where they can then purchase it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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