Epilogue

Commitment, expertise and mutual recognition: oscillating sports tourism experiences of performing and watching at the World Gymnaestrada

“…What matters for him is the meaning an individual attaches to the communality, the joint interest or collective purpose. It is this restricted sense which, for Cohen (2002), is consistent with, and able to account for, the conditions of , and human interaction in, contemporary social life. And it is in this restricted sense of a meaningful shared interest and collective purpose that community is understood in the context of this research.…”

“…It is a community outside of everyday life, understood as a meaningful collective interest and joint purpose. In line with Cohen (1985Cohen ( , 2002, what matters is not the shared expertise as such, but what people think about it, what it means to them.…”

“…The concept turned from necessarily accounting for face-toface relations into something symbolic, a shift, which has been labelled as 'interpretative turn' (Amit, 2002, p. 4) in the development of the conceptual notion of community. Cohen (2002) proposed the concept refers to some sort of communality, something that individuals appear to share. They may just be connected to each other in a narrow way or for a restricted purpose.…”

“…In line with Cohen (1985Cohen ( , 2002, it is conceptualised as a meaningful shared interest and collective purpose. What constitutes the participants' sense of belonging is something symbolic, namely the deep meaning they derive from their joint expertise.…”