Name: Cocoon Communities
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Cocoon Communities

Togetherness in the 21st Century

Edited By: Fred Dervin, Mari Korpela

£39.99

This innovative volume proposes the concept of Cocoon Communities: groups that are highly significant for members, yet voluntary and not binding. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives on communities of students, online mourners, expatriates, and more.

Filling a gap in the literature on communities, this innovative and critical volume proposes the concept of Cocoon Communities. Cocoon communities are highly significant for…

Filling a gap in the literature on communities, this innovative and critical volume proposes the concept of Cocoon Communities. Cocoon communities are highly significant for its members and yet not binding. Membership is voluntary and informal. Weaving together interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors offer theoretical perspectives and research findings on communities of international students, online mourners, farmworkers, expatriates, and ‘Westerners’ in India. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and students in anthropology, education, social psychology and sociology.

Mari Korpela is a social anthropologist, currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His website is: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/dervin/