Avi Boukli

Avi Boukli is an Associate Professor at the Open University of the United Kingdom. After a long-term involvement in the fields of Sociology, Criminology, and Law, she has contributed as a co-editor to the publication of the first book in international literature, which analyzes the Ancient Greek term ‘zemia’ (i.e. damage) in an effort to create a new scientific field under the term Zemiology.

The academic-research movement around Zemiology began in the late 1990s in the United Kingdom, within the framework of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control. This approach aims to shed light on a number of injurious acts that are not criminalized, thus evading criminal justice, as well as injurious acts deriving from the enforcement of the penal mechanism and the mechanisms of penal and social control.

As an example, in the context of the documentaries of the "Why Slavery?" series, to which she contributed as a scientific expert and in collaboration with the BBC, the Why Foundation, the Open University, and the documentary "Jailed in America" ​​particularly, a multidimensional image is captured, relating to the processes through which criminal justice often recycles injurious practices.

Respectively, in the areas of environmental damage and human rights, Avi Boukli's collaboration with the Evans Woolfe Media production team has contributed to the creation of two documentaries for the Open University. The first documentary deals with the reproduction of environmental damage/injury, as caused by the overexploitation of open pit mines in Peru, while the second focuses on water distribution policies to agribusiness operations for the exporting of goods, but with damaging and detrimental effects to the native community.