The Political Economies of High-Speed Rail
A Global View
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 14 September 2026
- ISBN 9781032961415
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 Illustrations, black & white; 24 Halftones, black & white; 6 Tables, black & white 700
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Short description:
High-speed rail (HSR) is the object of conflicting assessments. It is simultaneously viewed as modern, backwards, progressive, conservative, green, unsustainable, disruptive and path-dependent.
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High-speed rail (HSR) is the object of conflicting assessments. It is simultaneously viewed as modern, backwards, progressive, conservative, green, unsustainable, disruptive and path-dependent.
This volume takes as its starting point the heterogeneous appraisal of contemporary high speed rail development and unpacks it in order to reveal the diversity of processes and relations out of which HSR projects are born. Moving beyond narrow economic investigations, the broad range of national case studies – from France to China and the US to Morocco - situate HSR planning in the wider political-economic context within which it takes place. Each chapter provides an in-depth study of a national HSR project, placed within multiscalar historical-geographic configurations. The comparative view offered by this volume challenges inherited assumptions about the development of contemporary infrastructure and shows that the analysis of HSR can provide broader insights into state-led planning and market-based governance.
The book is important reading for those interested in the political economy and financialisation of infrastructure, sustainable transition, critical geography and ethnography.
MoreTable of Contents:
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
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