Fine Arts Departments or Culture Ministries as it might be. At the same time, there has been a quite
interesting growing up of local projects, both for tangible and intangible heritage. Those projects are
usually representative of a “minority” group, but due to the fact that local participation is searched for,
they are certainly an interesting development from the top down approach kept until recent times.
Thus, the panel will focus more on the modalities local participation is actually implemented. Among
the possible lines of research, the panel will look to both governments as well as NGOs actually
involved in such projects and the relation between local participation and local governance.
Another aspect is the analysis of the relation between these projects within the more generalized
spectrum of decentralization and how these heritage sites developed through local involvement can be
considered within the more general picture of national heritage discourse.