“…The current neoliberal international order is characterised by the hegemonic imperatives of GDP growth, national debt and international financial institutions. In this context, behind apparently equal trade relations, there is a stark unequal ecological exchange in land, labour, water and raw materials, going from peripheral to core territories (Dorninger & Hornborg, 2015;Dorninger et al, 2021;Rivera-Basques et al, 2021). Peripheral territories were and continue to be bound by international financial institutions to implement structural adjustment programs (SAPs), in response to the debt crises of the 1970s and 1980s (Federici, 2000;Ferguson, 2006;Muraca, 2020).…”