In reality, both control over time and access to mobility reflect and reinforce power. Skeggs is rightly critical of the universalizing treatise of the mobile, cosmopolitan individual postulated by social theorists, such as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens, and she notes the ever-widening gap between those who theorize and those who engage in empirical research.54 It is only by examining the facts on the ground that we can understand how speed and time are being lived. So this is exactly what we will do in the remaining chapters of this book.
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