Between the world of commercialized leisure and the world of home cocooning lies a middle groundin Québec replete with public and community organizations that work together by the thousands to offer recreational and leisure opportunities to Quebecers and growth opportunities to communities. At some point everybody takes part in a festival, enrolls their children in team sports, visits a park, uses a bicycle path, volunteers for an amateur theater troupe, organizes a soccer tournament, expresses a need for recreation, or claims the right toleisure. Through more than 50 case studies that provide a compelling portrait of leisure in Québe ...