Utopian Futures, Heterotopic Spaces: Gabriela Damián Miravete’s Imaginary Reconstitution of Society

This article examines Gabriela Damián Miravete’s “Soñarán en el jardín” and “La casa que es el mundo” as uneven but complementary exercises in what Ruth Levitas calls the “imaginary reconstitution of society” (IROS). Bringing utopian and spatial theory into dialogue with approaches to science fiction, necropolitics, and decolonial feminism, it analyzes how Damián Miravete uses speculative fiction to reimagine social relations shaped by feminicide, migration, ecological crisis, and coloniality. “Soñarán en el jardín” constructs a future in which feminist memory, public pedagogy, and state power remain closely connected to the violence of the past, while “La casa que es el mundo” more fully elaborates the institutions of an alternative society but leaves much of the historical process required to produce them outside the narrative. Read together, the stories reveal both the possibilities and formal limits of utopian future-making, suggesting that its political force depends not only on imagining desirable alternatives but also on how those alternatives remain connected to the histories they seek to transform.