The Romani Studies Program at Central European University cordially invites you to the hybrid launch of the thematic issue of Critical Romani Studies journal   Roma and Environmental Justice in Europe   Thursday, May 15, 2025, 5:40 pm – 7:00 pm Central European Time   The event takes place at CEU Vienna and online   Panel participants Jekatyerina Dunajeva (editor and author) Marek Szilvasi (editor) Sergen Gül (author) Judit Berecz Bari (author) Beatrice Lindstrom (author) Márton Rövid (managing editor, moderator)   Please register by 13 May at https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/SbV6tP63j9   This thematic issue of Critical Romani Studies on Roma and Environmental Justice in Europe focuses on authoritarian politics, biases in residential planning, extractivism, institutional corruption, and structural inequities that produce and maintain uneven exposure to negative environmental and climate impacts as experienced by Roma. Across Europe, numerous Romani communities live in environmentally hazardous areas with restricted access to water, sanitation, and waste removal. Their air, land, and water have been contaminated by waste dumps, railways and motorways, industrial farms, mines or abandoned industrial areas, compounded by unavailable public infrastructure or access to green zones. The uneven distribution of environmental harms and benefits significantly contribute to the inequities Romani people encounter in their health outcomes and livelihoods. They suffer from higher rates of long-term illness and their life expectancy is between 10 and 25 years less than the general population (EPHA 2018; Bloch and Quarmby 2024). This gap will further expand as vulnerable communities miss out on resources to effectively adapt or become resilient to the impacts of climate change.   Critical Romani Studies is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access 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.   The open access issue is available at https://crs.ceu.edu   CEU Event https://events.ceu.edu/2025-05-15/roma-and-environmental-justice-europe   Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/1322383485732736