Intentional communities and the "late waves" of the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper, based on on-going research about intentional communities in times of the coronavirus crisis, deals with the "late waves" of the pandemic. On one hand, communities' activity based on the values of collectiveness, deeply affected by the social distancing policy imposed by many governments around the world to stop the COVID-19 propagation. On the other hand, communities used their cooperative tools to challenge isolation, and the economic crisis occurred during the pandemic. Many of them participated in communal and political activities.

These events occurred in new models of cooperative living created in the early 21st century in many places around the world, based on the values of cooperation and solidarity. In this research, I'll try to understand the way that these cooperative tools helped the intentional communities to challenge with the pandemic.