Dr Avi Boukli

Professional biography

In previous years, Avi's work engaged with sexuality, gender, criminalisation, security, human rights, and social harm, informed by empirical work in the context of human trafficking and "modern slavery". 

Currently, Avi is working on gender and cultural harm in the context of anti-trans harms, and the criminalisation of protection in the context of "modern slavery".

PhD supervision

Avi is interested in supervising students in the following areas: social justice, feminist theory, queer theory, state crime, social harm, marxist criminology, critical victimology, media representations of crime, human trafficking, zemiology, and the regulation of non-binary identities.

Current PhD students:

• Evgenia Iliadou
• Roe McDermott

Selected publications

A record of Avi's research publications can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

Boukli, A. (2019) Zemiology and Human Trafficking. London & NY: Routledge.

Boukli, A., Yanacopulos, H. & Papanicolaou, G. (2019) 'Geneologies of Slavery'. In Winterdyk, J. and Jones, J. (eds.) The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking. London & NY: Palgrave.

Boukli, A. & Kotzé, J. (2018) Zemiology: reconnecting crime and social harm. London & NY: Palgrave Macmillan, Critical Criminological Perspectives.

Boukli, A. & Renz, F. (2018) Gender Murder: transphobia, zemia, and telemorphosis. In Boukli, A. and Kotzé, J. (eds.) Zemiology: reconnecting crime and social harm. London & NY: Palgrave Macmillan, Critical Criminological Perspectives.

Boukli, P. (2016) ‘Trafficking and the “Victim Industry” Complex’. In Antonopoulos, G. (ed.) Dick Hobbs. Springer Studies in Organised Crime. New York: Springer, pp.237-263.

Boukli, P. & Chatzopoulos, G. (2015) 'Imaginary Counter-Trafficking Penalities: a comparative analysis of Greece and the United Kingdom', Journal of Trafficking, Organised Crime and Security, 1(2), pp.76-90.

Papanicolaou, G. & Boukli, P. (2011) Sex, Trafficking and Crime Policy in Greece, in Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, S. (eds.), ‘Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives’, Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing Group, pp. 307-338.

Newspaper and media

Boukli, A. (5 July 2017) 'Criminalisation and LGBTQI+ Rights: a Queer Marxist approach', OpenLearn Article.

Bouklis, P.S. & Kappas, P. (March 2004) The Marc Dutroux of the newspaper next door (Ο Ντιτρου της Διπλανης Εφημεριδας), 87/8607, 08/03/2004, in Eleutherotypia (Greek daily newspaper).

Translations

Bouklis, P.S. ‘Human Rights and Gender Identity’, in M Galanou ed., Athens: Greek Transgender Association and the Council of Europe, 2010.

Academic Blogs

May'17 - Defining Zemia, 8 May 2017.

Jul. '16 - The Empire is Out with a Million Bullets Fired: a short introduction to the poetic rhetoric of harm, 21 July 2016. 

Feb. '16 - Moral Economy and the Refugee Crisis, with F. Renz, 1 February 2016.

Oct.'13 - Precarious Faces, Ruins: Chronicle of an HIV witch-hunt, 26 October 2013.

Oct.'13 - Transphobia, Critical Legal Thinking, 22 August 2013, also translated in Greek.

Sep.'09 - Homophobic Violence, 19 September 2009.

Avi has introduced and taught several modules across a range of topics including Property Law, Criminal Law, Sociology, Criminology, Victimology and Criminal Justice.

Avi is currently the module chair/lead of DD804 Crime and Global Justice and the Qualification Lead of F75 MA in Crime and Justice.