Disha Asati

 I am studying a pretty straightforward flaw in standard economics: it assumes both nature and women's unpaid care work are free, infinite resources. At the intersection of political science, economics and socio-legal dynamics in India, I look at how our cities run on invisible, uncounted care labor while constantly pushing social and environmental limits to the edge. Being in the DEAL community gives me a space to ground these realities in practice, working to adapt the Doughnut's "social foundation" for informal care networks in the Global South, while learning alongside a global community pushing for economics that actually values people and the planet.