International Conference The Business of Worldmaking: New Perspectives on Liminal Actors in Postcolonial Development CooperationHarisch, Immanuel (Urednik) Musić, Goran (Urednik) Ramšak, Jure (Urednik) Seeking to move beyond a focus on former colonial Metropoles and Cold War superpowers, and zooming in on peripheral modernization projects, this conference investigates the ‘in-between’ instances of economic cooperation in the self-professed developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. The conference primarily focuses on those dynamic players in the postcolonial world which circumvented the habitual East-West and North-South cleavages and presented themselves as: 1) neutral (e.g. Austria, Sweden, Ireland), 2) non-aligned (e.g. Yugoslavia, India, Egypt), 3) pursuing more independent socialist course (e.g. Romania, Cuba, China), 4) allegedly not sharing the colonial past with other Western European nations (e.g. West Germany, Italy), or 5) successfully ‘catching up’ with the most developed nations (e.g. Japan, Israel, South Korea). While not excluding examples of Cold War superpowers and former colonial metropoles’ inserting themselves into this newly emerging multidirectional development consensus the conference focuses on the above described, liminal examples of bilateral collaboration, particularly contributions emphasizing tri- and multilateral efforts between ‘East’, ‘South’ and ‘West’.Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Annales ZRS20242024-09-16 11:47:47Zbornik20430UDK: 339.9:930.85ISBN: 978-961-7195-54-5DOI: 10.35469/978-961-7195-54-5COBISS_ID: 206730499slZRS Koper