colonialism

The group presented a number of recommendations, including that the city council should apologise for Edinburgh's past role in slavery and colonialism.

While it’s easy to imagine that colonialism is part of our past, think again.

It was one of the artefacts that launched an online campaign to highlight women's roles in pre-colonial communities - and revive cultural heritages almost erased by colonialism.

"It's something we call green colonialism or developmental aggression where they really want to just take more and more from lands," she says.

And exile is set into motion by trauma, whether that be from a state set on genocide or climate change and the ravaging effects of colonialism that have stripped the land of all sustenance.