In a move away from exclusive use by modality, a number of shared tramping and mountain biking tracks have been developed in New Zealand. We ask: On shared tracks, what tensions arise and how are they experienced? Using data from online surveys of track-users, we examine bikers' and trampers' perspectives and experiences of conflict. Tensions arose through perceived conflict of values and directly experienced conflict during interactions with the other user group. We conclude that while conflicts may be inevitable, they can be mitigated through communication: ensuring users know what to expect and how to act respectfully.
There's a perception farm-resident women are farmers or farmwives (e.g., cooks, record-keepers, errand-runners). Yet most farm-resident women record a non-farm occupation in their census returns. This article investigates this anomaly. It looks at the changing status of farm and other rural women, the diversity of non-farming careers they engage in and similarities between urban and rural women's occupations. It concludes that due to changes in definitions, the problematic nature of time-series census data, administrative-data locational errors and limited information on 'pluri-active' rural women, a strong fit-for-purpose database and a more comprehensive understanding of what rural women do, is needed.
