ABSTRACT
This chapter explores avenue for liberating subjectivities and forms of sociability in the context of Western globalization and its modern/colonial structure, particularly in relation to the agency/invisibility of Ugandan youth perspectives and our/their entry into engaged scholarship. Through reflection and dialogue around a set of lived experiences that intersected, diverged and fragmented in relation to a trip to Paris, the standardizing mechanisms of asymmetrical globalization were brought to the fore. Philosophically, phenomenology attends to lived experiences while at the same time recognizing that these very experiences can never be portrayed in their original form. Hermeneutic phenomenological reflection orients both research and researchers to the components of both descriptive and interpretive perceptions of a lived experience. Our processual and emergent approach allows us to engage in phenomenological sense-making from a comparative cultural perspective. Exploring non-Western/marginal experiences, people work toward de-linking from the Western universal claim to reason and its embeddedness in European culture.
