Published: 2024-07-31

Gender of Everyday Space. Feminist-based Commentary on Witold Wachowski’s "Distributed Cognition. From Heuristics to Mechanisms" ["Poznanie rozproszone. Od heurystyk do mechanizmów"]

Aleksandra Derra
Studia Philosophiae Christianae
Section: Papers
https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2024.60.A.07

Abstract

This article reflects on the gender dimensions of space in response to Witold Wachowski’s Distributed Cognition. From Heuristics to Mechanisms [Poznanie rozproszone. Od heurystyk do mechanizmów]. Wachowski’s work belongs to the so-called “turn to space,”
according to which we treat the environment as an integral part of culture, and culture as a cognitive process. By focusing on relevant examples, it illustrates how space, broadly understood, can shape and perpetuate gender stereotypes. It aims to inspire further, in-depth research on the relationship between gender and space (and, more broadly, on cognition and cognitive processes) in the framework of distributed cognition.

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Received: 02/01/2024. Reviewed: 30/01/2024. Accepted: 24/04/2024.

 

Keywords:

space, gender, feminism, spatial turn, distributed cognition, cognitive ecology

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Derra, A. (2024). Gender of Everyday Space. Feminist-based Commentary on Witold Wachowski’s "Distributed Cognition. From Heuristics to Mechanisms" ["Poznanie rozproszone. Od heurystyk do mechanizmów"]. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 60(1), 169–183. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2024.60.A.07

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