Frontiers of Appropriation
Spanish High-Speed Rail and Capitalist Environment-Making
$410.45
- Hardcover
244 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2026
Summary
High-speed trains are an icon of the green revolution in transport and mobility. For more than thirty years, AVE (Alta Velocidad Española, or Spanish HSR (High Speed Rail)) has been an instrument for transforming the public railway company, reshaping labor relations and advancing a model of regional development; yet Spain remains a car-dominated society. Frontiers of Appropriation delves into the history of Europe’s most advanced high-speed rail system to assess the transformations it has bro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836955542 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1836955545 |
| Author: | Natalia Buier |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 244 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Dislocations |
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“It is a powerfully argued and highly accomplished piece of scholarly research.” - Gareth Dale, Brunel University
This is an impressive book that makes many innovative moves in the anthropology of infrastructure. - Gavin Smith, University of Toronto
About The Author
Natalia Buier
Natalia Buier is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is currently working on a historical ethnography of groundwater depletion in Southwestern Spain. Most recently, she has coedited, with Susana Narotzky and Theodora Vetta, Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region: A Socioecological View (Palgrave Macmillam 2025).
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