Amanda Johnson

The primary focus of Amanda’s research is on community-based meanings of public leisure spaces. Amanda typically examines landscapes of everyday life and how these spaces and places are managed to ensure preservation and sustainability while allowing for everyday and practical use by a diversity of individuals and communities. Amanda’s past research projects have examined farmers’ markets as everyday places for local residents and visitors, the community impacts of forced displacement from homes and recreation spaces, and everyday interpretations of public leisure spaces.

Amanda holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo in Recreation and Leisure Studies, an MSc from Clemson University in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, and a BA from the University of Waterloo in Recreation and Leisure Studies.