TalksTalks
Venue
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Date
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Time
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
EdBookFest

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Patricia Evangelista: The Terrible Becomes Ordinary image
Synopsis:

Language matters, and when we talk about atrocities as if they are commonplace, we start normalising their happening. Award-winning investigative journalist Patricia Evangelista talks to Jen Stout about Some People Need Killing, discussing six years of reporting on the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings, carried out in the name of Duterte’s war on drugs. What can this profound project of witness reveal about the human impulses to dominate and resist?