“…Neoliberalism espouses limited intervention by the state and “the emancipation of individuals through the realisation of their freedoms” (Khoury & Whyte, 2017, p. 14). Its success (and pervasiveness) as a hegemonic project at the national and global level is due, in part, to its capacity to transcend markets, and embed neoliberal rationality in non-economic domains (Bandiera, 2021; Brown, 2005; Polanyi, 2001), including human rights. Indeed, neoliberalism is “equally compatible” with human rights (Khoury & Whyte, 2017, p. 13), as it “proposes that human wellbeing can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade” (Harvey, 2005, p. 2).…”