Martin Mowbray
Biographic Data
| ID | 149385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Mowbray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mowbray |
| SIGNATURE | MOWBRAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT Europe |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Study in Neo‐conservative Populism: Richard Trudgen's Why Warriors Lie Down and Die
First appearing in 2000, and with 20,000 copies sold as it entered its sixth printing in 2004, Richard Trudgen's Why Warriors Lie down and Die is a minor publishing phenomenon. Although scholarly forums have generally ignored the book, Christian media outlets, the popular press and neo‐conservative political activists have enthusiastically received and promoted it. An examination of the merits of Why Warriors Lie down and Die suggests that its po…
More spray on solution: Community, social capital and evidence based policy
The role for government in generating social capital is to create the opportunities for individuals to establish relationships and shared values; that is, to facilitate the creation of networks. The site for network creation is the local community, and community strengthening is the means to do so
Community capacity building or state opportunism
Communitarianism is again a vogue idea in policy discourse, but the goals pursued through associated programmes are often confused. Extravagant claims about strengthening communities, rebuilding social capital and addressing human needs in innovative ways proliferate. The state of Victoria boasts that such priorities are now at the heart of its approach to government. As evidence, it promotes one of its community building schemes as helping small…
The Cocos (Keeling) islands: A study in political and social change
A case for the renovation of community work education
The article addresses the contemporary scope of Australian community work. A review of working documents and other publications, all written by non academics, indicates the purview of community work practice to be restrictive. This is evident in a lack of clear expectations for specialist qualifications amongst practitioners and also practices appear to centre on service provision rather than on the broader agenda for social change that various a…
Private Agencies as Public Agents? Developments in Child Welfare in New South Wales
The number of children in the care of New South Wales government institutions has been decreasing. The decline has been sharper for those children in state institutions compared with those children in state-organized foster care. Overall, government expenditure on substitute care has also fallen, although cash transfers to private child welfare agencies for the provision of alternative substitute care have increased markedly. Plans to transfer re…
Fringe-Dwellers and Welfare: The Aboriginal Response to Bureaucracy
Noonkanbah. Whose Land, Whose Law
Who cares? Social security, family policy and women
The Red Shire of Kearsley, 1944-1947: Communists in Local Government
If the concept of 'municipal socialism' has meant anything at all to Australians over recent years it was most likely in reference to militant British local governments, Liverpool or Sheffield City Councils, or the well publicised Greater London Council and its leader, 'Red Ken Livingstone. Indeed the exploits of the GLC would be far better known in this country than the activities of any single Australian local government, past or present. This …
Women Really Care
Pressures to contain or reduce public expenditure are giving rise to policies geared to reduce the demand for direct state services. These involve alternative programs featuring the transfer of responsibilities, but not necessarily control, to more local, private, and family bases. Such trends depend upon the availability of the apparently cheap labour of women. Community care generally means care by females, but this fact is usually unacknowledg…
Restructuring Child Welfare: Deinstitutionalisation and Austerity in the N.S.W. Department of Youth and Community Services
This paper concerns the emerging trend towards privatisation, localisation and family based care in child welfare. While recent developments are officially held to stem from the needs of the child, analysis of major policy reviews and reports reveals primary concern with economy. The child's interests are meant to coincide with the fiscal requirements of the state
Community’: The Spray‐on Solution
Community is one of those ‘motherhood’ words with great potential for mystification of social issues. This paper examines the way the term has evolved and is currently used in Australia. Special attention is given to the contradiction between the claims to radicalism of much community work and the system preserving effect the term actually lends to programs. To illuminate the process under consideration alternative approaches are briefly consider…
Surveying Community Action Resource Documents
Distributive Bargaining for Community Organizations: Lessons from Industrial Relations
Negotiating or bargaining is a common social process. It occurs continuously without always being formally recognized or articulated. Many of the specific and separate strategies and tactics that characterize negotiation are similarly unidentified. The object of this paper is to specify and describe key strategies and tactics for use in negotiating at the community level. Lessons are drawn from the field of industrial relations
Community’: The Spray‐on Solution
Community is one of those ‘motherhood’ words with great potential for mystification of social issues. This paper examines the way the term has evolved and is currently used in Australia. Special attention is given to the contradiction between the claims to radicalism of much community work and the system preserving effect the term actually lends to programs. To illuminate the process under consideration alternative approaches are briefly consider…
Community capacity building or state opportunism
Communitarianism is again a vogue idea in policy discourse, but the goals pursued through associated programmes are often confused. Extravagant claims about strengthening communities, rebuilding social capital and addressing human needs in innovative ways proliferate. The state of Victoria boasts that such priorities are now at the heart of its approach to government. As evidence, it promotes one of its community building schemes as helping small…
More spray on solution: Community, social capital and evidence based policy
The role for government in generating social capital is to create the opportunities for individuals to establish relationships and shared values; that is, to facilitate the creation of networks. The site for network creation is the local community, and community strengthening is the means to do so
Women Really Care
Pressures to contain or reduce public expenditure are giving rise to policies geared to reduce the demand for direct state services. These involve alternative programs featuring the transfer of responsibilities, but not necessarily control, to more local, private, and family bases. Such trends depend upon the availability of the apparently cheap labour of women. Community care generally means care by females, but this fact is usually unacknowledg…
Private Agencies as Public Agents? Developments in Child Welfare in New South Wales
The number of children in the care of New South Wales government institutions has been decreasing. The decline has been sharper for those children in state institutions compared with those children in state-organized foster care. Overall, government expenditure on substitute care has also fallen, although cash transfers to private child welfare agencies for the provision of alternative substitute care have increased markedly. Plans to transfer re…
Surveying Community Action Resource Documents
Distributive Bargaining for Community Organizations: Lessons from Industrial Relations
Negotiating or bargaining is a common social process. It occurs continuously without always being formally recognized or articulated. Many of the specific and separate strategies and tactics that characterize negotiation are similarly unidentified. The object of this paper is to specify and describe key strategies and tactics for use in negotiating at the community level. Lessons are drawn from the field of industrial relations
Community’: The Spray‐on Solution
Community is one of those ‘motherhood’ words with great potential for mystification of social issues. This paper examines the way the term has evolved and is currently used in Australia. Special attention is given to the contradiction between the claims to radicalism of much community work and the system preserving effect the term actually lends to programs. To illuminate the process under consideration alternative approaches are briefly consider…
Restructuring Child Welfare: Deinstitutionalisation and Austerity in the N.S.W. Department of Youth and Community Services
This paper concerns the emerging trend towards privatisation, localisation and family based care in child welfare. While recent developments are officially held to stem from the needs of the child, analysis of major policy reviews and reports reveals primary concern with economy. The child's interests are meant to coincide with the fiscal requirements of the state
Women Really Care
Pressures to contain or reduce public expenditure are giving rise to policies geared to reduce the demand for direct state services. These involve alternative programs featuring the transfer of responsibilities, but not necessarily control, to more local, private, and family bases. Such trends depend upon the availability of the apparently cheap labour of women. Community care generally means care by females, but this fact is usually unacknowledg…
Who cares? Social security, family policy and women
The Red Shire of Kearsley, 1944-1947: Communists in Local Government
If the concept of 'municipal socialism' has meant anything at all to Australians over recent years it was most likely in reference to militant British local governments, Liverpool or Sheffield City Councils, or the well publicised Greater London Council and its leader, 'Red Ken Livingstone. Indeed the exploits of the GLC would be far better known in this country than the activities of any single Australian local government, past or present. This …
Fringe-Dwellers and Welfare: The Aboriginal Response to Bureaucracy
Noonkanbah. Whose Land, Whose Law
Private Agencies as Public Agents? Developments in Child Welfare in New South Wales
The number of children in the care of New South Wales government institutions has been decreasing. The decline has been sharper for those children in state institutions compared with those children in state-organized foster care. Overall, government expenditure on substitute care has also fallen, although cash transfers to private child welfare agencies for the provision of alternative substitute care have increased markedly. Plans to transfer re…
A case for the renovation of community work education
The article addresses the contemporary scope of Australian community work. A review of working documents and other publications, all written by non academics, indicates the purview of community work practice to be restrictive. This is evident in a lack of clear expectations for specialist qualifications amongst practitioners and also practices appear to centre on service provision rather than on the broader agenda for social change that various a…
The Cocos (Keeling) islands: A study in political and social change
More spray on solution: Community, social capital and evidence based policy
The role for government in generating social capital is to create the opportunities for individuals to establish relationships and shared values; that is, to facilitate the creation of networks. The site for network creation is the local community, and community strengthening is the means to do so
Community capacity building or state opportunism
Communitarianism is again a vogue idea in policy discourse, but the goals pursued through associated programmes are often confused. Extravagant claims about strengthening communities, rebuilding social capital and addressing human needs in innovative ways proliferate. The state of Victoria boasts that such priorities are now at the heart of its approach to government. As evidence, it promotes one of its community building schemes as helping small…
A Study in Neo‐conservative Populism: Richard Trudgen's Why Warriors Lie Down and Die
First appearing in 2000, and with 20,000 copies sold as it entered its sixth printing in 2004, Richard Trudgen's Why Warriors Lie down and Die is a minor publishing phenomenon. Although scholarly forums have generally ignored the book, Christian media outlets, the popular press and neo‐conservative political activists have enthusiastically received and promoted it. An examination of the merits of Why Warriors Lie down and Die suggests that its po…
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