Frontiers of Appropriation : Spanish High-Speed Rail and Capitalist Environment-Making (Dislocations) （Library Binding）

Buier, Natalia

Berghahn Books（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781836955542

Full Description

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 brought about. The towering yet marginal position of AVE in the Spanish transport market is not a paradox but an expression of the role of HSR in consolidating the hegemonic mobility paradigm.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Frontiers of Appropriation and Capitalist Environment Making

Part I: Limits to the Market

Chapter 1. Sliding on Bearings Greased with Banknotes

Chapter 2. A New Company Culture 

Part II: Limits to Consensus

Chapter 3. A Total Modernization Project

Chapter 4. A Public and Social Railway

Part III: Limits to Development

Chapter 5. A Town Built from Scratch

Chapter 6. By Any Means Necessary

Conclusion: War on Territory: An Inglorious Form of Devaluation

References

Index