Natalia Buier is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of Frontiers of Appropriation: Spanish High-Speed Rail and Capitalist Environment-Making (Berghahn, 2026) and co-editor (with Susana Narotkzy and Theodora Vetta) of Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region: A Socioecological View.Simon Haikola is a senior associate professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden. He investigates the politics of the environment with a focus on the state and how state policies are implemented across scales.

• Introduction: Political economies of high speed rail Part 1. Pioneers and leaders 1. Japan 2 France 3. Spain 4. China Part 2. Contenders and followers 5. UK 6. Taiwan 7. Morocco 8. Denmark and Germany Part 3. Dissenters and sceptics 9. United States 10. Canada 11. Sweden Index

Natalia Buier is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of Frontiers of Appropriation: Spanish High-Speed Rail and Capitalist Environment-Making (Berghahn, 2026) and co-editor (with Susana Narotkzy and Theodora Vetta) of Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region: A Socioecological View.Simon Haikola is a senior associate professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden. He investigates the politics of the environment with a focus on the state and how state policies are implemented across scales.

• Introduction: Political economies of high speed rail Part 1. Pioneers and leaders 1. Japan 2 France 3. Spain 4. China Part 2. Contenders and followers 5. UK 6. Taiwan 7. Morocco 8. Denmark and Germany Part 3. Dissenters and sceptics 9. United States 10. Canada 11. Sweden Index

Natalia Buier is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of Frontiers of Appropriation: Spanish High-Speed Rail and Capitalist Environment-Making (Berghahn, 2026) and co-editor (with Susana Narotkzy and Theodora Vetta) of Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region: A Socioecological View.Simon Haikola is a senior associate professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden. He investigates the politics of the environment with a focus on the state and how state policies are implemented across scales.

• Introduction: Political economies of high speed rail Part 1. Pioneers and leaders 1. Japan 2 France 3. Spain 4. China Part 2. Contenders and followers 5. UK 6. Taiwan 7. Morocco 8. Denmark and Germany Part 3. Dissenters and sceptics 9. United States 10. Canada 11. Sweden Index