Temporal awakenings and the subversive effects of study abroad

This study describes how experiences abroad impact U.S. low-income, first-generation ethnoracially minoritized participants’ sense of time (i.e., rhythms or changes involved in social processes) and space (i.e., how movement is practiced, experienced, apprehended, and embodied). Participants in this study reexamine, reallocate, and reappropriate time and space as a result of their experience studying abroad. Notably, I explore the temporal aspects of study abroad to reflect the circumstances of participants’ lives. I also expand on spatiality as participants’ confrontation with social time shifts their conceptualizations of temporality. Through this, participants enact practices at odds with hegemonic constructs of ageism, nationalism, heteronormative experiences, and the neoliberal logic of time.