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Diverse Driving Emotions

In the industrialized West, cars are considered an essential part of everyday
life. Their dominance is underpinned by the challenges of managing complex,
geographically stretched daily routines. Drivers’ emotional and embodied relationships
with automobiles also help to explain why car cultures are difficult
to disrupt. This article foregrounds ethnic diversity to complicate notions of
a “love affair” with the car. We report on the mobilities of fourteen Chinese
migrants living in Sydney, Australia—many of whom described embodied
dispositions against the car, influenced by their life histories. Their emotional
responses to cars and driving, shaped by transport norms and infrastructures
in their places of origin, ranged from pragmatism and ambivalence to fear and
hostility. The lived experiences of these migrants show that multiple cultures of
mobility coexist, even in ostensibly car-dependent societies. Migrants’ life histories
and contemporary practices provide an opportunity to reflect on fissures
in the logic of automobility.