Tony Blackshaw is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport & Leisure at Sheffield Hallam University and author of The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies (SAGE, 2009) and Zygmunt Bauman (Routledge ¿Key Sociologists¿, 2005)

Setting the Record Straight: What Is Community? And What Does It Mean Today?
Community as Theory
A Theory of Community
Hermeneutic Communities
Liquid Modern Communities
Postmodern Communities
Community as Method
Action Research
Community Profiling
Community Studies
Ethnography
Social Network Analysis
Community as Place
Cosmopolitanism, Worldliness and the Cultural Intermediaries
Liminality, Communitas and Anti-Structure
Locality, Place and Neighbourhood
Virtual Communities
Community as Identity/Belonging
Community and Identity
Imagined Communities
Neo-Tribes See Setting the Record Straight, Leisure and Its Communities, Liquid Modern Communities and Liminality, Communitas and Anti-Structure
New Social Movements See Community Action
Personal Communities See Setting the Record Straight, Social Network Analysis and Virtual Communities
The Symbolic Construction of Community
Community as Ideology
Communitarianism
Community Politics See Political Community and Community Action
Imaginary Communities
Nostalgia
The ¿Dark Side¿ of Community
Utopia See Imaginary Communities
Community as Policy and Practice
Community Action
Community Development
Community Partnerships
Community Policy See Political Community
Community Practice See Community Development, Community Youth Work, Leisure and Its Communities
Community Regeneration
Community Youth Work
Leisure and Its Communities
Political Community
Social Capital

Concise yet critical, this is a student friendly introduction to the multi-disciplinary field of community studies.