Charis Boutieri
Biographic Data
| ID | 649010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charis Boutieri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charis |
| FAMILY NAME | Boutieri |
| SIGNATURE | BOUTIERI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7223-1076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Pre-Conflict Aleppo
Introduction: Beyond public reason
This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race, gender, class, or religion. We argue that liberal public reason has become both a hegemonic ph…
Beyond words: Non-dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia
In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of 'interpersonal communication' (tawasul bayna al-afrad) for the purpose of managing social conflict. Yet the members of the only non-re…
Events of citizenship: Left militantism and the returns of revolution in Tunisia
Amidst an ostensibly successful transition along the axes of liberal parliamentary democracy since the 2011 revolution, a group of Tunisian left militants organize their own spaces of deliberation and ethical cultivation. Among these is the ciné-club, an assembly that combines film screenings and discussion. By unearthing the diverse chronotopes – temporal and spatial dimensions – of Tunisian revolutionary thought and praxis, the ciné-club assemb…
The Democratic Grotesque: Distortion, Liminality, and Dissensus in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
How do we understand the presence of the grotesque in negotiations of democratic life after a revolution? At the peak of procedural democratic consolidation, carnivalesque revelries in Tunisia became the object of public aporia and repugnance. The dissimilar interpretations of these revelries across generations evince an agonistic process of prizing open both the parameters of nationhood and democratic ideals within existing social relations. The…
Everyday Life in Global Morocco. Rachel Newcomb. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 192 pp
National identities after 2011: Interrogating the politics of culture and relations of soft power in the Maghrib
Notwithstanding its prominent place in diplomatic discourse, development policy, and to an extent everyday parlance, the concept of ‘soft power’ and the set of operations it incorporates have featu
On democratic glossaries: Soft power' and hard markets in post-revolutionary Tunisia
Inside Tunisian civic training programmes funded by foreign donors in the post-revolutionary period, democratic training collapses into neoliberal frames of being and doing. This paper traces the ‘soft power’ that imbues the glossaries of democratisation with a specifically economistic logic. It argues that this economistic logic influences the shaping of an emerging civic public in Tunisia along international objectives despite the translation o…
Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East
Inheritance, Heritage, and the Disinherited: Ambiguities of Religious Pedagogy in the Moroccan Public School
This article investigates howMoroccan public high-school students experience religious pedagogy. Probing the linguistic ideology that underpins their religious training, the article exposes the ambiguities inherent in educationalArabization, a project set on safeguarding the state's sacredness while mediating an agenda of indigenous modernization. Student skepticism toward the state's moral authority indicates that religious pedagogy must be expl…
In Two Speeds ( À Deux Vitesses): Linguistic Pluralism and Educational Anxiety in Contemporary Morocco
Notwithstanding its promotion as a vehicle for the decolonization and modernization of knowledge in Morocco, the policy of Arabization has been caught in an ongoing competition with the pedagogical visions of the French Protectorate—visions that have been recycled by nationalist and international development agendas. This competition has subtly classified the sciences and the humanities into Francophone and Arabophone disciplines, respectively, a…
What Schooling Engenders: Reflections from Arab States, Muslim Societies and Beyond
Book review on: Osama Abi-Mershed (Ed.). Trajectories of Education in the Arab World: Legacies and Challenges. Routledge. 2010. Sakurai Keiko and Fariba Adelkhah (Eds.). The Moral Economy of the Madrasa: Islam and Education Today. Routledge. 2011
In Two Speeds ( À Deux Vitesses): Linguistic Pluralism and Educational Anxiety in Contemporary Morocco
Notwithstanding its promotion as a vehicle for the decolonization and modernization of knowledge in Morocco, the policy of Arabization has been caught in an ongoing competition with the pedagogical visions of the French Protectorate—visions that have been recycled by nationalist and international development agendas. This competition has subtly classified the sciences and the humanities into Francophone and Arabophone disciplines, respectively, a…
On democratic glossaries: Soft power' and hard markets in post-revolutionary Tunisia
Inside Tunisian civic training programmes funded by foreign donors in the post-revolutionary period, democratic training collapses into neoliberal frames of being and doing. This paper traces the ‘soft power’ that imbues the glossaries of democratisation with a specifically economistic logic. It argues that this economistic logic influences the shaping of an emerging civic public in Tunisia along international objectives despite the translation o…
The Democratic Grotesque: Distortion, Liminality, and Dissensus in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
How do we understand the presence of the grotesque in negotiations of democratic life after a revolution? At the peak of procedural democratic consolidation, carnivalesque revelries in Tunisia became the object of public aporia and repugnance. The dissimilar interpretations of these revelries across generations evince an agonistic process of prizing open both the parameters of nationhood and democratic ideals within existing social relations. The…
Beyond words: Non-dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia
In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of 'interpersonal communication' (tawasul bayna al-afrad) for the purpose of managing social conflict. Yet the members of the only non-re…
National identities after 2011: Interrogating the politics of culture and relations of soft power in the Maghrib
Notwithstanding its prominent place in diplomatic discourse, development policy, and to an extent everyday parlance, the concept of ‘soft power’ and the set of operations it incorporates have featu
What Schooling Engenders: Reflections from Arab States, Muslim Societies and Beyond
Book review on: Osama Abi-Mershed (Ed.). Trajectories of Education in the Arab World: Legacies and Challenges. Routledge. 2010. Sakurai Keiko and Fariba Adelkhah (Eds.). The Moral Economy of the Madrasa: Islam and Education Today. Routledge. 2011
In Two Speeds ( À Deux Vitesses): Linguistic Pluralism and Educational Anxiety in Contemporary Morocco
Notwithstanding its promotion as a vehicle for the decolonization and modernization of knowledge in Morocco, the policy of Arabization has been caught in an ongoing competition with the pedagogical visions of the French Protectorate—visions that have been recycled by nationalist and international development agendas. This competition has subtly classified the sciences and the humanities into Francophone and Arabophone disciplines, respectively, a…
Inheritance, Heritage, and the Disinherited: Ambiguities of Religious Pedagogy in the Moroccan Public School
This article investigates howMoroccan public high-school students experience religious pedagogy. Probing the linguistic ideology that underpins their religious training, the article exposes the ambiguities inherent in educationalArabization, a project set on safeguarding the state's sacredness while mediating an agenda of indigenous modernization. Student skepticism toward the state's moral authority indicates that religious pedagogy must be expl…
Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East
National identities after 2011: Interrogating the politics of culture and relations of soft power in the Maghrib
Notwithstanding its prominent place in diplomatic discourse, development policy, and to an extent everyday parlance, the concept of ‘soft power’ and the set of operations it incorporates have featu
On democratic glossaries: Soft power' and hard markets in post-revolutionary Tunisia
Inside Tunisian civic training programmes funded by foreign donors in the post-revolutionary period, democratic training collapses into neoliberal frames of being and doing. This paper traces the ‘soft power’ that imbues the glossaries of democratisation with a specifically economistic logic. It argues that this economistic logic influences the shaping of an emerging civic public in Tunisia along international objectives despite the translation o…
Everyday Life in Global Morocco. Rachel Newcomb. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 192 pp
The Democratic Grotesque: Distortion, Liminality, and Dissensus in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
How do we understand the presence of the grotesque in negotiations of democratic life after a revolution? At the peak of procedural democratic consolidation, carnivalesque revelries in Tunisia became the object of public aporia and repugnance. The dissimilar interpretations of these revelries across generations evince an agonistic process of prizing open both the parameters of nationhood and democratic ideals within existing social relations. The…
Events of citizenship: Left militantism and the returns of revolution in Tunisia
Amidst an ostensibly successful transition along the axes of liberal parliamentary democracy since the 2011 revolution, a group of Tunisian left militants organize their own spaces of deliberation and ethical cultivation. Among these is the ciné-club, an assembly that combines film screenings and discussion. By unearthing the diverse chronotopes – temporal and spatial dimensions – of Tunisian revolutionary thought and praxis, the ciné-club assemb…
Introduction: Beyond public reason
This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race, gender, class, or religion. We argue that liberal public reason has become both a hegemonic ph…
Beyond words: Non-dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia
In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of 'interpersonal communication' (tawasul bayna al-afrad) for the purpose of managing social conflict. Yet the members of the only non-re…
Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Pre-Conflict Aleppo
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Deliberation (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)