Leisure Communities (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Mutuality, Collective Identity and Belonging in the New Century
Redaktion: Glover, Troy D.; Sharpe, Erin K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the concept of community by critically exploring its many manifestations in leisure. It unpacks patterns of mutuality, collective expression and belonging as they emerge through interaction, shared narrative, and practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000177718
• Artikelnr.: 59888403

Autorenporträt

Troy D. Glover is Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies and Director of the Healthy Communities Research Network at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Erin K. Sharpe is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Are Leisure Communities Really Communities?
Part I: Locating Community in 21st Century Leisure
1. The Enduring Relevance of Third Places
2. Forging Connections and Community Within an Online Tennis Forum
3. Friendships in the Singlehood: Examining Leisure and Community for Single Adult Women
4. Unpacking the Impact of Social Relationships on the Leisure Mobility of Millennials
5. Twitch.tv as a Vibrant Networked Community of Loose Affiliations
6. Community as Hyperobject: Exploring the "Spectral Plains" of Leisure
Part II: Community and Playful Performance
7. Urban Exploration and its Heterotopic "Communities"
8. Placemaking in the Playful City: Playing In and Playing With the Urban Environment
9. Better Singers Together: How Older Japanese Women Build and Maintain Social Relations in Karaoke Classrooms
10. Together Apart: Second Home Leisure Communities in New Zealand
11. Performing Community: A Case Study of the Yoga Experiences of Rural New Zealand Men
12. Parisite Lost: The Utopian Decline of a DIY Skatepark
Part III: Leisure Communities and Their Impacts
13. Pipe-dreams and Utopian Visions: Blending Community and High Performance Sport in New Zealand Cycling and Gymnastics
14. Inside Out: The Role(s) of Leisure in the Endogenous and Exogenous Pathways to Social Capital
15. Community Sport and Civic Engagement
16. Envisioning Museums as Welcoming Spaces for Belonging
17. Resisting
Reproducing
and Recreating Rurality: Leisure in Contemporary Rural Communities