From that vantage point, the world's inhabitants the "tiny, fragile human body," as Walter Benjamin put it look vulnerable, precarious, in need of protection.
Quebecois particularism flies because "the francophone majority is itself a precarious minority that needs protection in order to ensure its survival" (Bouchard, 2011, p. 441).
An influential voice here is Bouchard (2011), who argues that it is necessary to develop a form of pluralism that acknowledges that the francophone majority is itself a precarious minority that needs protection in order to ensure its survival and development in North America and in a globalized World.
Honestly, as the exact sort of person directly meant to benefit from this legislation (ie. a young worker with little institutional protection in a precarious economy with no secure, pensioned employment readily available), it's hard for me to really quibble with this law.
"Following major storms, homeowners recognizing their precarious predicament built so-called erosion protection structures to protect their property," it said.
The first is that religious belief is a symptom of fear: aware that our lives are precarious and vulnerable, we seek the protection of a powerful deity, to comfort ourselves with an illusion of safety.
People cannot be expected to spend freely if they have precarious, low-paying jobs and scant social protection.
Do democratically elected leaders wish to open this bloody door again, when in fact their own protection is as porous and precarious as ever?
Investment in infrastructure, adequate training, an end to precarious work, and reforms such as social protection, minimum wages and collective bargaining, are concrete steps governments must take to narrow the growing gap between the haves and have-nots.
"People in more precarious neighborhoods must build their own networks of protection.
