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Cocoon Communities: Togetherness in the 21st Century
Author(s): Fred Dervin (Author, Editor), Mari Korpela (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 7 Jan. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781443842426
- ISBN-13: 9781443842426
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The editors have managed to compile a volume that provides an excellent snapshot of the interesting concept of cocoon communities . . . The book represents a very good addition to this ever-burgeoning field. –Michel Maffesoli, Sorbonne University, France
About the Author
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/
