Qualifications and academic background

• PhD in the Information and Knowledge Society (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 2018)
• Doctoral research stay (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. 2018)
• Master in Gender Studies (University of Bologna, Italy. 2015)
• BA in Clinical Psychology (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico. 2009)

Activity and professional career

Interested in the anthropology of the body from a posthumanist and feminist approach, her research project focuses on the exploration of ‘running’ as a sporting, leisure and recreational practice in everyday life. She works with mobile ethnographic methodologies with urban runners, exploring the ways in which ‘running bodies’ are ‘situated’ and relationally configured in continuity with urban space and digital technologies. In 2017, as part of her doctoral thesis, she started working on the project ‘Capicúa MovLab’, an applied research laboratory exploring posthuman corporeality in everyday life. Her first ‘provocation’ called ‘Derivas runners: la memoria del agua en Querétaro’, activates ‘running’ as a vehicle for critical action during the collective exploration of the city's hydraulic system. By studying emotions, perceptions and sensations of bodies in movement and in connection with urban space, she initiated the mapping of critical areas of the city where urban interventions of regeneration and environmental awareness can potentially take place.
She also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice.

Research

Her research interests revolve around the intersection of sport, bodies, digital technologies, subjectivity, affects, senses, emotions, posthumanism, feminism, gender, ethnography, mobility-movement, urban studies, environmentalism, everyday life activism, psychogeographies and new materialisms.

Publications

• Herrera-Altamirano, E (2022). Más allá de la línea de meta: la potencia del “cuerpo que corre” y sus respos-habilidad con el planeta. Martí, J. & Enguix, B. (Eds.), Pensar la antropología en clave posthumanista. Editorial CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de España), Barcelona, Spain.
• Herrera-Altamirano, E. (2019). Barcelona Runner: turismo, ciudad y cuerpos posthumanos. Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, 2, 64-77.
• Herrera-Altamirano, E. & Enguix, B. (2019). Cuerpos que corren: devenires y continuums urbanos desde un enfoque etnográfico feminist. RELACES. Revista Latinoamericada de Estudios sobre cuerpo, emociones y sociedad. 11(30), 22-34.
• Herrera-Altamirano, E. (2018). Poster: The Memory of Water: Running Adrifts throughout the hydraulic system of the city. presented en el RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale Festival # r3fest en Paris School of Arts and Culture, University of Kent.
• Herrera-Altamirano. E. (2012). El Hospital: Un lugar para la intervención psicoanalítica. En Psicólogos y psicoanalistas en hospitales: Formación, experiencia y reflexiones. (pp. 123-132). Mexico, DF: Manual Moderno.