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CALL FOR PAPERSHeritage and Art between State Ideology and Grassroots ActivismPanel to be held at the 2009 ASA Conference, Bristol (UK), 6-9 April 2009Organized by Chiara De Cesari (Chiara.DeCesari@let.uu.nl) and Rozita Dimova (rozita@zedat.fu-berlin.de)Discussants: Victor Buchli, Ian HodderShort abstract:This panel explores the relationship between heritage and art and theirpolitics. Focus is on examining this relationship beyond taken-for-granteddichotomies, and on illuminating the ways in which heritage and artparticipate in both forms of dominance and projects of resistance.Long abstract:This panel explores the relationship between heritage and art by examiningtheir complex articulations. Saliently rooted in and affected by politics,art and heritage become sites where state ideologies and grassrootsactivisms are produced, shaped and disseminated. Bearing this in mind, theprimary objective of the panel is to investigate this relationship in avariety of diverse, contemporary contexts. We would like to criticallyinterrogate the view that heritage and art represent radically differentapproaches to the material world, one focusing on conservation, the other onchange. By stressing the practices that they share, such as representation,interpretation, recontextualization, and display, we would like to revealthe blurred boundaries between the two domains, emphasizing how heritage andart lie at the crossroads of tradition/modernity, continuity/change, andconservation/creativity. In addition to questioning the art/heritagedichotomy, our goal will be to analyze the complex politics surrounding andinforming this alliance. While the protection and valorization of a"distinctive" heritage has become a central concern of national andtransnational cultural policies targeting not only tourism promotion, butalso socio-economic development and post-conflict reconciliation, ourfieldwork research discloses how heritage and art can be mobilized by bothprojects of exclusion and projects of emancipation. As we investigate themultiple ways in which the two participate in forms of dominance (e.g.,producing orientalist images, reifying the state or affecting the spatialpolitics of neoliberalism), we will also emphasize that heritage and art canturn into important sites of grassroots cultural resistance.The deadline for abstracts is February 6th, 2009. Abstracts should besubmitted ONLINE, following the link at the bottom of this webpage ("proposea paper"):http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa09/panels.php5?PanelID=548Chiara De CesariResearch Institute for History and CultureUtrecht UniversityThe Netherlands