Over 11.5 million people are incarcerated globally, with the French prison system facing acute challenges such as overcrowding, poor conditions, and high recidivism. This project takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine how social exclusion and social identity affect cooperative behavior among incarcerated individuals. An original experiment was conducted in a French Maison Centrale, combining a public goods game, social inclusion priming, and qualitative interviews. The findings challenge the notion of a unified "criminal brotherhood" — no significant ingroup bias was observed — yet social inclusion priming increased cooperation toward out-group members, suggesting that even minimal psychological interventions can foster prosociality.

This project extends the experimental investigation of social exclusion and cooperation beyond carceral contexts, examining how identity salience and exclusion priming interact with voluntary contribution mechanisms in controlled laboratory settings.

Cet essai explore les idées d'Alexis Kagamé sur la philosophie bantoue, mettant en avant son approche linguistique. Il remet en question les généralisations de Placide Tempels, soulignant l'importance du langage dans la pensée philosophique africaine. L'essai aborde également les perspectives de Souleymane Bachir Diagne, qui encourage à dépasser les nationalismes ontologiques et linguistiques pour embrasser la diversité philosophique, et conclut sur la proposition d'« incliner sans nécessiter ».

A survey piece situating Africana philosophy as a distinctive mode of inquiry that confronts fundamental questions of existence, freedom, and human dignity under conditions of racialized oppression — drawing on Lewis Gordon, Fanon, Du Bois, and the Black radical tradition, among others.