Article ID: CBB687956933

Diverse Driving Emotions Exploring Chinese Migrants’ Mobilities in a Car-Dependent City (June 2018)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Obenzinger, Hilton
Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Svetlana
Dieker, Marith
Nikita Klyusov
Miles Pierce
Christoph Bernhardt
Concepts
Land transportation
Automobility
Mobility
Embodiment; corporeality
Automobiles
Emotions; passions
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
Australia
United States
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Bristol (England)
Lyon (France)
Institutions
Victoria and Albert Museum
Central Pacific Railroad Company
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