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Frontiers of Appropriation: Spanish High-Speed Rail and Capitalist Environment-Making

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Frontiers of Appropriation

Spanish High-Speed Rail and Capitalist Environment-Making

Natalia Buier

Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

244 pages, 1 fig., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-554-2 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (July 2026)


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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

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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.

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).

Subject: Anthropology (General)History (General)Transport Studies
Area: Southern Europe

Frontiers of Appropriation by Natalia Buier is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

OA ISBN: 978-1-83695-556-6



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