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The subject of human well-being continues to gain traction in disciplines as diverse as psychology, sociology, development studies, and economics. Current scholarship, however, is still largely framed by normative assumptions about what being well means, and the overwhelming majority of conceptual approaches to well-being being have been conceived and applied by researchers in the industrialized, wealthy contexts of the global North. We critique the current conceptualizations of well-being and assess their applicability to research in the global south, particularly in contexts marked by poverty and inequality.

"Studying While Black" is an intimate portrait of the many ways in which students in South Africa experience university, and the centrality of race and geography in their quest for education and ultimately emancipation. The book is the outcome of a longitudinal qualitative study undertook between 2013 and 2017 by a team of researchers from the Human Sciences Research Council. The study tracked eighty students from eight diverse universities in South Africa and documented their experiences. -- Back cover