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By: Aine Santala, Steve Vanderheiden

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“Sacrifice zones” is a term that has evolved to refer to sites of concentrated environmental hazards resulting from extractive forms of land use. Much of the current literature explores the establishment of such places in Latin America and the United States, where legacies of settler colonialism interact with extant patterns of socioeconomic inequality and sociopolitical marginalization, but what drives their creation in Europe? This study examines three cases (a Roma community in Sajokaza, Hungary, the Kallak mining project in Sami lands, and the Jadar Valley lithium mining project in Serbia) to offer a theoretical analysis of how sacrifice zones are identified and constructed along the peripheries of power. Exploring economic drivers and socio-political dynamics, this paper seeks to understand both the commonalities and differences between places and communities marked for ecological violence.