About the Journal
Critical Romani Studies is an international, interdisciplinary, double blind peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for activist-scholars to critically examine racial oppressions, different forms of exclusion, inequalities, and human rights abuses of Roma. Without compromising academic standards of evidence collection and analysis, the Journal seeks to create a platform to critically engage with academic knowledge production, and generate critical academic and policy knowledge targeting—amongst others—scholars, activists, and policymakers.
Scholarly expertise is a tool, rather than the end, for critical analysis of social phenomena affecting Roma, contributing to the fight for social justice. The Journal especially welcomes the cross-fertilization of Romani studies with the fields of critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical policy studies, diaspora studies, colonial studies, postcolonial studies, and studies of decolonization.
The Journal actively solicits papers from critically-minded young Romani scholars who have historically experienced significant barriers in engaging with academic knowledge production. The Journal considers only previously unpublished manuscripts which present original, high-quality research. The Journal is committed to the principle of open access, so articles are available free of charge. All published articles undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editorial screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous scholars.
Current Issue
Full Issue
Articles
Industrialisation in Modern Turkey and the Search for Environmental Justice for the Romani Population of the Ergene River Basin: Romani Voices amid Environmental Degradation
Page 14-34
Caring for Thirst: Challenges to Access to Water in Slovakia through a Legal Lens
Page 36-51
From Discrimination to Accountability: Exposing and Redressing Racism in the Case of Lead-poisoned Kosovo Roma
Page 52-74
The Struggle for Anti-racist Environmental and Housing Justice: A View from a Militant Research Project in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Page 76-93
Racialised Stereotypes of Scrap Iron Collection as Failures of Ecological Citizenship
Page 94-114
Slow Violence and Environmental Racism: Romani Recyclers in North Macedonia’s Circular Economy
Page 116-138
Living on Trash: Wasted Identities and Wasted Bodies among Belgrade’s Ashkali and Romani Trash-pickers
Page 140-156
Book reviews
Joan Martínez-Alier. 2023. Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Page 158-163
Richard Filčák and Daniel Škobla, eds. 2022. Odpad ako sociálny problém vo vylúčených rómskych osídleniach [Waste as a social problem in marginalised Romani settlements]. Bratislava: Center for Social and Psychological Sciences at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology.
Page 164-167
Arts and culture
Housing Crisis in a Hungarian Romani Settlement Due to Environmental Damage: The Case of the Municipality of Recsk and a Local Mine
Page 168-178
A Quest for Environmental Justice for Roma in Thessaloniki: The Case of the Tsairia Settlement
Page 180-193
‘Designated Sites’: A Review of the Photography of Valentin Merlin
Page 194-199
Leveraging the European Green Deal for Roma: Reflections on the Roma Environmental Justice Conference Organised by the European Environmental Bureau in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2023
Page 200-204