In this essay I analyze the meaning of the concepts home and at home and the feeling of coming home. What is a home and what different interpretations are there regarding the concepts of home and being at home? What kinds of feelings are aroused by coming home? The world we live in offers great opportunities to travel, which in itself creates a perspective on the meanings of the concepts. The world we live in also forces people to move from their homes, families and countries due to various reasons, which creates various problems and a certain urgency concerning the concepts. I describe basic terms concerning the concepts, both regarding concrete definitions and more abstract notions, and then compare them with my own reflections.          Based on my writing project Coming home I discuss these questions in various ways. I also describe the considerations I have made regarding these issues and the impact they have made in the text collection. I present my own description of home as a result of and defined by the emotions this term creates and where the moods are decisive.          The intention with Coming home is to offer different perspectives on and reflections upon the various feelings of coming home expressed by my own voice in the literary texts under study.

<p>A study of the generations problematic in museums of work and local folklore societies, principally run through volunteer work. Illustrative examples are Ödestugu local folklore society and Husqvarna Factory Museum in Småland (Sweden). The empirical study consists of interviews with active people and inquiry among societymembers and workers at the factory. An analysis of interest, engagement and the view of the future is made and concepts like professionalisation and change are discussed. By way of conclusion the coming generation problem is discussed in relation to professionalisation, the historical development, volunteer work, economy and national projects.</p> / <p>En undersökning av återväxten inom arbetslivsmuseer och hembygdsföreningar, vilka främst drivs utifrån ideellt arbete. Fallstudier är Ödestugu hembygdsförening och Husqvarna Fabriksmuseum i Småland. Den empiriska undersökningen utgörs av intervjuer med aktiva samt enkätundersökningar bland föreningsmedlemmar och fabriksanställda. En analys av intresse, engagemang och synen på verksamheternas framtid sker utifrån begrepp som professionalisering och förändring. Avslutningsvis diskuteras återväxtproblematiken i relation till professionalisering, den historiska utvecklingen, ideellt arbete, ekonomi och nationella projekt. </p>

This dissertation examines the coming of sound film in Sweden during the years 1928–1932, and the reception of mechanically recorded sounds both in the trade press and among audiences. The novelty of sound film opened up for a negotiation of the perception of sound and image, as it made visible the film medium’s technological construction, before this visibility was once more absorbed by the cinematic discourse. The conversion to sound film is considered from three perspectives -- technology, reception and practice -- as well as through the concept of intermediality, focussing how the audio-visual expression changed during this period. Chapter 1 “Image, Sound, Audience I: ‘Constructed’ sounds - the visibility of technology” deals with these issues prior to the conversion to sound, and the following intermediate years, until sound film had reached a certain equilibrium. Chapter 2 “Production – The Companies” deals with the production and the major Swedish sound companies. Particular attention is given to how formative music in their films transforms itself into a consistent use of non-diegetic music two years before this happened in Hollywood. Chapter 3 “Reception – The Cinemas” addresses the topic of the reception of the first sound films in Sweden during 1929. The argument is that the audience’s re-awakened awareness of the technology described in Chapter 1 was an active part in this process, and that their reactions led back into the advertising campaigns, making them participants in the cinematic event. Chapter 4 “Practice – The Musicians” continues this debate from a musician’s point of view. This chapter turns the focus upside down and looks at the arrival of sound film from a grass-roots perspective. While chapter 4 diverts somewhat in dwelling on issues that do not strictly deal with the conversion to sound, it serves to contextualise a technological invention that changed not only film production and reception, but also had very concrete social repercussions for those that created the sounds of music. Chapter 5 “Image, Sound, Audience II: ‘Authentic’ sounds - the disappearance of technology” dovetails with Chapter 1, addressing similar phenomena at a time when these had become fully integrated and the technology once more became invisible.

Recent queer scholarship challenges the academy’s longstanding urban and adult oriented trajectory, pointing to the way such studies ignore rural and heartland regions of the country as well as the experiences of youth. In this thesis, I craft a limited ethnographic methodological approach together with a textual analysis of The Oprah Winfrey Show to deliver portraits of gay men living in various rural or heartland areas who use their television sets to encounter and identify with LGBTQ people across the nation. The overarching aim of this project is to explore the ways in which religion, rurality, and Oprah coalesce in the process of identity creation to form rural gay men’s conceptual selves and how they are then informed by that identity formation. I will focus my textual analyses through the frames of six of Oprah Winfrey’s “ultimate viewers” to elucidate how they receive and interact with her star text, how they use television sets in the public rooms of their homes to create boundary public spheres, and how they are impacted by the show’s various uses of the coming out paradigm. In so doing, this thesis seeks to contribute to the scholarship of rural queer studies, television studies, and Oprah studies. / text

In addressing the necessity of cultural transmission from one generation to the next, this ethnographic study examines ways that Indigenous canoe journeys enable communication of ancestral teachings and traditions, particularly to Kw‟umut Lelum youth. The objective is to identify how experiences and interactions within Indigenous canoe journeys, specifically Tribal Journeys, can connect youth to traditions, environments, Elders, other individuals, and each other. Drawing on interviews with adults and participant observation, I consider relational themes of self and identity to explore the cultural impact on the young people as they participate in Tribal Journeys 2010 and symbolic ceremonies within it. Through qualitative inquiry and inductive reasoning, this interpretive epistemological approach includes concepts specific to the Indigenous research paradigm and uses a performative narrative to present results. Kw‟umut Lelum Child and Family Services is a society committed to the well-being of Indigenous children residing within nine Coast Salish communities on Vancouver Island. The agency focuses on family, community, and sacredness of culture as guided by the Snuw‟uy‟ulh model, which uses the teachings of the present to unite the past and future. Tribal Journeys is a significant cultural event that upholds the Snuw‟uy‟ulh principles while facilitating the communication of ancestral teachings and traditions. Keywords: Indigenous, canoe, youth, culture, tradition, Coast Salish, narrative, perform

Magistro darbe analizuojama Mažeikių rajono turizmo situacija bei plėtros perspektyvos Lietuvos regioninės politikos kontekste. Darbe apibūdinamos pagrindinės Mažeikių rajono turizmo sritys – gamtinė, kultūrinė ir sporto turizmo aplinka, infrastruktūra, jų reikšmė vietinio ir atvykstamojo turizmo plėtrai, analizuojami teisiniai turizmo dokumentai. Keliami darbo uždaviniai - charakterizuoti esamus rajono turistinius išteklius ir įvertinti stiprybes, silpnybes, galimybes bei galimas grėsmes, pateikiant kiekvienos turizmo srities SSGG (angl. SWOT) analizes. Siekiant ištirti Mažeikių rajono turizmo sektoriaus valdymo problemas, buvo apklausti penkių pagrindinių rajono turizmo institucijų ekspertai. Tyrimo metu siekta išsiaiškinti ekspertų nuomonę apie turizmo valdymo situaciją, turizmo institucijų veiklos funkcijas, tų funkcijų praktinį pritaikymą, bendradarbiavimo tarp institucijų ir verslo partnerių aspektus. Baigiamojoje dalyje pateiktos išvados ir įvairios problemų sprendimo galimybės, ekspertinio tyrimo metodu įvertintos plėtros perspektyvos vietiniam ir atvykstamajam turizmui skatinti ekonomikos atsigavimo laikotarpiui. / This master’s work analysis the situation of tourism and prospects of expansion in Mažeikiai district in the context of regional policy of Lithuania. Firstly, the leading fields of tourism of Mažeikiai district such as natural, cultural and sport tourism environment, infrastructure, their importance to the expansion of local and coming tourism have been definable in this work as well as legal tourism documents have been analyzed. Objectives: to define the present tourist resources of the district and evaluate the strength, the weakness, opportunities and possible threats providing analysis of every sphere of tourism (SWOT). Secondly, for the attainment of exploring the problems of the management of tourism division of Mažeikiai district the experts of five leading tourism institutions of the district have been interviewed. Furthermore, during the survey the experts’ view on the situation of management of tourism, the functions of work of tourism institutions, and putting them into practice, and the aspects in collaboration with the tourism institutions and business, has been aspired. Finally, the conclusion and various potentialities of solution to problems are provided in the final part and using the method of expert research the prospects of expansion for local and coming tourism to stimulate during economical recovery period have been assessed.

Thesis PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2009. / Field study. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2009. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-02, page: .

"A Master's paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science." / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 25, 2006). "May 2004." Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-47).

Thesis (M.G.S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Sociology and Gerontology, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-68).