Jennifer and Jacques explore the meanings of ownership and property in western thought, and how concepts of land use and productivity have been used to justify the dispossession of first nations people.
References
Gnuse, R (1985) You Shall Not Steal: Communiy and Property in the Biblical Tradition. New York: Orbis Books
Jurczak, P. (2019) Ch.10 - The Nature of Property in Introduction to Philosophy. Simple Book Publishing.
'America, the black countries, the spice islands, the Cape, etc. were for them, as they were discovered, lands which were not owned by anyone; because they didn't consider their inhabitants to be anything."
Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet