From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade

Abstract

From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade is a personal journey with appropriated identity, belonging, and intellect and the internal battle leading to reclaiming them. It is a journey with multiple scenes of invalidation performed by the ‘civilised western’ homo-sapiens upon the ‘uncivilised southern’ other. With stops in Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Finland, this story written with dark ‘humour’ as an adaptation mechanism, demonstrates how precarity is an upgrade to some and exhibits how some positive experiences can and do awaken latent dramas and traumas caused by constant invalidation.