21. NICOLA PILIA
Information acquired: 2025
NICOLA PILIA is an academic who published a paper in 2020 entitled Dwe,,ling, Dispossession, and â€oeSlow Violence†in the Time of Climate Change. NICOLA PILIA published this work as part of a team: Pilia, Nicola. Here is a description of this work: <,,div>, <,p>,In this essay, I will analyse the crucial issues of dwelling and dispossession concerning refugees in the novel <,i>,The Hungry Tide<,/i>, by Amitav Ghosh. Political and environmental displacement is addressed within the framework of ‘slow violence' as proposed by the landmark work of Rob Nixon, <,i>,Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor<,/i>, (2011). With the intention to define the Morichjhapi refugees as a foreshadowing of the climate migrations involving the lives of the subalterns in South Asia, as argued by Brandon Jones (2018), the essay provides a historical background of the Morichjhapi Massacre and studies the forced eviction narrated in the novel through the pages of Nirmal's diary. Together with Kusum, the Marxist professor experiences the tragedy of the subalter.