Social Capital & Enterprise in the Modern State

SOCIAL CAPITAL & ENTERPRISE IN THE MODERN STATE Edited by Éidín Ní Shé, Lorelle J. Burton and Patrick Alan Danaher Social Capital and Enterprise in the Modern State Éidín Ní Shé • Lorelle J. Burton Patrick Alan Danaher Editors Social Capital and Enterprise in the Modern State Editors Éidín Ní Shé Lorelle J. Burton University College Dublin University of Southern Queensland Dublin, Ireland Toowoomba, QLD, Australia Patrick Alan Danaher University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD, Australia ISBN 978-3-319-68114-6 ISBN 978-3-319-68115-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68115-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017956110 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Cover illustration: Getty Images / Kasia75 Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors and authors are very grateful to the following individuals, without whom this book would not have been published: • Ms Jemima Warren, Ms Beth Farrow and other colleagues at Palgrave Macmillan for being encouraging and facilitative publishers of the book. • Ms Meredith Harmes for managing the project, organising the editors and typesetting the manuscript with consummate skill and timely efficiency. • Ms Jodie Gunders for her earlier work in commencing the project. • Dr Marcus Harmes for providing guidance and advice. • Professor Glen Postle, at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, for writing the Afterword to the book, and for being an inspiring leader and a passionate advocate for a more enabling state and a more just society. • Ms Hazel Harrower and Miss Katrina Wilson, at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, for providing helpful administrative support. • Colleagues who reviewed individual chapters in the book. • Mr Senthil Kumar and his colleagues at SPi Global for their compre- hensive professionalism and unfailing courtesy in producing the book. • Our colleagues at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and University College, Dublin, Ireland, for their ongoing commit- ment to transformative research and reciprocal partnerships. v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS And most significantly the members of and contributors to the various groups from across the globe who are featured in this book and who work tirelessly to generate and sustain empowering social capital and social enterprise in the modern state. CONTENTS Part I Concepts and Contexts 1 Enabling States, Capitalising Enterprise and Confronting the Social: Issues and Implications in Researching Contemporary Social Capital and Enterprise 3 Éidín Ní Shé, Lorelle J. Burton, and Patrick Alan Danaher The Ghost in the Machine: Enabling Public Administration for an Enabling State 21 Chris McInerney Part II Case Studies 43 The Residualisation of Social Housing in Australia and Its Impacts on Older Tenants 45 Alan Morris Stewarding Change? A Discussion About the METRO Care Model in Regional Australia 61 Matthew Gregg, Éidín Ní Shé, and Lorelle J. Burton vii viii Contents From Absorption to Inclusion: The Evolution of Irish State Policy on Travellers 75 Anne Boyle, Marie Flynn, and Joan Hanafin Local Governments and Social Enterprise: Meeting Community Challenges Together? 117 Catherine Hastings and John Weate No One Wakes Up Wanting to Be Homeless: A Case Study in Applied Creative Writing 147 Francesca Rendle-Short, Ronnie Scott, Stayci Taylor, Michelle Aung Thin, and Melody Ellis ‘Shooting the Filigreed Breeze’: Reconsidering Older Men’s Trust Relations in Digital Social Enterprise 165 Lisa McDonald Gender-differentiated Social and Human Capital and the Use of Microcredit in Bangladeshi Female Entrepreneurship 181 Muntaha Rakib, Sayan Chakrabarty, and Stephen Winn Social Enterprise and CALD Refugee Settlement Experience 203 Eric Kong, Sue Bishop, and Eddy Iles Becoming and Being a Social Entrepreneur in Regional Australia: What Can Be Learned and Shared 227 Luke Terry and Marian Lewis The Thrive Programme at Toowoomba Clubhouse: Building Social Connections and Reducing Stigma Experiences for People with a Lived Experience of Mental Illness 239 Sueanne M. Gola and Lorelle J. Burton Contents ix Men of Business ‘Pay it Forward’ Program: A Model for Building Social Capital in Disenfranchised Youth in High Schools 259 Lorelle J. Burton, Éidín Ní Shé, and Sue Olliver Clemente Toowoomba Programme: Enabling Pathways to Higher Education and Employment for Marginalised People in Community 277 Rebecca J. Lane, Lorelle J. Burton, and Gavin Beccaria Democratising Economies Through Place-Based Thinking 303 Patricia Inman Afterword: Issues and Implications 315 Glen David Postle Index 327 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Michelle Aung Thin is a Lecturer in Bachelor of Communication (Advertising) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). She is the author of The Monsoon Bride and her research interests include authen- ticity, mixed-race identity, colonial Burma, and the nature of home and belonging. She is working on a long-form narrative about contemporary Yangon and cosmopolitan Rangoon. Michelle holds the 2017 National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellowship for Australian Writing (sup- ported by the Eva Kollsman and Ray Mathew Trust). Gavin Beccaria is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ). He has taught at USQ for 10 years. He has received a USQ Early Career Teaching Award and he has been part of a research team investigating mental illness prevalence within Indigenous Australian communities. He recently completed two other book chapters on the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Prior to moving to academia, he was the Director of Psychology in the Toowoomba Health Service. His research interests include evaluating clinical psychology interventions, problem-solving training and the validation of mental health diagnostic instruments. Sue Bishop is now retired but most of her working life has been devoted to promoting equity in education. This has included teaching Pakistani primary school students in Yorkshire and Greek and Lebanese preschool students in Sydney. At the Australian National University, she assisted Indigenous and mature-age applicants to be admitted to degree programs xi xii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS and at USQ she helped African and Middle Eastern students to manage their degrees. She has an abiding passion to assist in making tertiary studies available to all students with the capacity and motivation to succeed at university whatever their background. Anne Boyle completed a PhD in 2015 at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, Ireland on the topic, The Involvement of Traveller parents in Traveller preschools in Ireland. She was awarded a scholarship to support this work by the Centre for Early Childhood Development and Education (CECDE) at Dublin City University. Anne was previously awarded an MEd degree for her work on profiling Traveller preschools. She taught in a Traveller preschool for over 20 years, providing early years education to three- to five-year-old Traveller children and providing support for Traveller parents. This stimulated her interest in questions of social justice for members of the Traveller community. Lorelle Burton is Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology and Counselling and Associate Dean (Students) at USQ, Australia. Lorelle also leads the Community Futures research program in the Institute for Resilient Regions at USQ. Lorelle has received multiple national teaching excellence awards and she has authored multiple psychology textbooks, including a market-leading first-year Australian psychology textbook. She has led national research projects in learning and teaching, has served on national committees and boards, and has been an invited assessor for national awards and grants. Lorelle leads community capacity-building programs that involve working collaboratively with marginalised youth and the aged, examining the challenges that they face and identifying the key factors that contribute to these social issues. The Community Futures research seeks

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