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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Mental Health and Wellbeing in Rural Regions of the Global North -- 1 Adversity and Resilience: Rural Mental Health in Australia -- 2 Mental Health and Wellbeing among Migrants in Rural Areas of the Global North: Evidence from the Literature -- 3 Muddying the Therapeutic Geographies of Mental Healthcare: Carescapes of Psychiatric Transition in the Scottish Highlands -- 4 Care Farming, Therapeutic Landscapes, and Rurality in the UK -- 5 Non-clinical Wellbeing Interventions in Rural Regions -- 6 Delivering Effective Treatment in Rural Regions -- 7 Wildlife: Exploring the Potential of an Innovative Digital Narrative Approach to Improve Mental Health Interventions for Adolescents in Indigenous Rural Populations of Low- to Middle-Income Countries -- 8 Rurality: Social Forces, Stress, and Mental Health -- 9 Rural Mental Health and Global Ethical Perspectives -- 10 Towards a Research Agenda for Global Rural Mental Health -- Index.

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present an Australian case study and to explore how social enterprises may be conceptualised as spaces of well-being, that is the ways in which social enterprises, not explicitly delivering health services, may be producing health and well-being benefits for those who come into contact with them.Design/methodology/approach– A case study in Australia is used to explore in depth the mechanisms of well-being production. Data were collected using ethnographic observation, focus groups and walking interviews. Data were analysed using thematic analysis, GIS and the lens of therapeutic assemblage.Findings– The case study social enterprise produces well-being as integration, capability, security and therapy. The social enterprise acts as a therapeutic assemblage with well-being "spoken", "practiced" and "felt" within the social enterprise. The ways in which well-being is generated are often linked to the productive element of enterprise – and have the potential to contribute to tackling several contemporary health challenges and inequalities relating to, for example, a lack of physical activity and levels of social isolation.Research limitations/implications– This paper draws on a single Australian case study but points to the need for further in-depth work in the area of social enterprise and health.Originality/value– The paper advances our understanding of how social enterprises may be linked to health and well-being. It goes beyond quantification of, for example, number of clients helped, to consider the wider experience of well-being for those who come into contact with social enterprises.

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the well-being impacts of social enterprise, beyond a social enterpriseper se, in everyday community life.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory case study was used. The study's underpinning theory is from relational geography, including Spaces of Wellbeing Theory and therapeutic assemblage. These theories underpin data collection methods. Nine social enterprise participants were engaged in mental mapping and walking interviews. Four other informants with "boundary-spanning" roles involving knowledge of the social enterprise and the community were interviewed. Data were managed using NVivo, and analysed thematically.FindingsWell-being realised from "being inside" a social enterprise organisation was further developed for participants, in the community, through positive interactions with people, material objects, stories and performances of well-being that occurred in everyday community life. Boundary spanning community members had roles in referring participants to social enterprise, mediating between participants and structures of community life and normalising social enterprise in the community. They also gained benefit from social enterprise involvement.Originality/valueThis paper uses relational geography and aligned methods to reveal the intricate connections between social enterprise and well-being realisation in community life. There is potential to pursue this research on a larger scale to provide needed evidence about how well-being is realised in social enterprises and then extends into communities.