Additionally, enlightenment thinker John Locke provided a new theorization of land, property, and space by rooting it to the reasonable human. For Locke, people are free and equal as well as reasonable therefore he …show more content…
Both Locke and Hegel’s methods of property acquisition legitimize colonialism and the domination of indigenous states. By naturalizing property acquisition, the accumulation of property and land is deemed reasonable within capitalist relations. However, Marx’s theorization of property encourages the possibility of altering social relations into a system which does not require constant exploitation. Finally, Razack’s conceptualization of spaces and method of unmapping repudiates the idea of a white settler innocence as well as the oppression of