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.

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.

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