Plant-Based Island​

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Plant-Based Island is a course for students and activists on the history and politics of plant-based food systems and lifestyles on tropical islands. Taught as a graduate course every semester at the University of Puerto Rico, Plant-Based Island draws upon the fields of environmental history, human geography, cultural studies, and island studies. It furthers a decolonial, bioculturally diverse vision of veganism which is nourished by the experiences and perspectives of the humans and more-than-humans living on islands across the Global South. The course enables students to understand and express many ways in which environmental justice, decolonization, cultural diversity, and veganism are intimately connected — and in the process, acquire the skills to become global, multicultural vegan activists.