Personal profile
Research interests
Degrowth, Environmental Justice Movements, Environmental Politics, De-Urban Design
Futures Studies: Critical Futures Studies, Design Futures, Postmortal Futures, Futures of Death
Discourse Theory: Political struggles, Critical Fantasy Studies
Education/Academic qualification
Urban Studies, Certificate, De-Urban Design Certificate
Award Date: 15 Sept 2020
Futures Studies, Master of Arts, The futures of social practices of interaction between humans and Virtual Deceased Individuals: A Causal Layered Analysis of four ideal types, University of Turku
… → 31 Jul 2020
Award Date: 31 Jul 2020
International Relations, Master of Arts, University of Essex, UK
… → 15 Sept 2015
Award Date: 11 Nov 2015
International Relations, Bachelor of Science
… → 27 May 2016
Fields of Science
- 5141 Sociology
- 5171 Political Science
- 5172 Global Politics
- 519 Social and economic geography
- 5203 Global Development Studies
- 611 Philosophy
- 1172 Environmental sciences
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Death, relationality, and resistance against necropolitical violence in Latin America
Hurtado Hurtado, J., 22 Jan 2026, Decolonising Death Studies. Routledge, p. 121-131 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Book review: Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society
Hurtado Hurtado, J., 26 Aug 2025, In: Utopian Studies. 36, 2, p. 564-570 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Scientific
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Recursive Cycles in Environmental Futures Research: A Futures Multi-Method Approach
Hurtado Hurtado, J., Nov 2025, In: World Future Review .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Vidas después de la muerte y futuros de florecimiento en el Antropoceno
Translated title of the contribution :Afterlives and flourishing futures in the Anthropocene Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional
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Westworld, morality, and digital afterlives-morality between digital heaven and digital earthly hell
Hurtado, J. H., 19 Aug 2025, Depicting the Afterlife in Contemporary Film and Media: Morality, Religion and Death. Nairn, A. (ed.). Taylor and Francis, p. 220-235 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Activities
- 4 Invited talk
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Decrecimiento, Contrahegemonía y Cambio Social (in English: Degrowth, Counter hegemony and social change)
Hurtado Hurtado, J. (Speaker)
Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Presentation: Care as Pluriversal Strategy? Caring in counter-hegemonic struggles in the degrowth and environmental justice movements
Hurtado Hurtado, J. (Speaker)
1 Oct 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Explorando Futuros: Consideraciones Epistemológicas para los Estudios de Futuros (in English: Exploring Futures: Espistemological Considerations for the Futures Studies field).
Hurtado Hurtado, J. (Speaker)
3 Sept 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Peer Commentator on Digital Afterlives at: Coloquio Internacional de Investigación en Comunicación
Hurtado Hurtado, J. (Invited speaker)
24 May 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Joshua Hurtado Hurtado on postmortal futures, futures studies, degrowth, immortality imaginaries, future collective death, Westworld, and promoting your work in 2026
02/01/2026
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Los futuros políticos de la inmortalidad: Pluralismo y nuevas prácticas sociales en la meta de trascender a la muerte (in English - Political Futures of Immortality: Pluralism and new social practices in the aim of transcending death).
28/08/2025
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media