State and civil society in post-war Uruguay: imaginary units, excluding fragmentations and precarious inclusions

Abstract

As José Nun (1987) says, history has no other intelligibility than that which narrators try to confer on it. In the case of our political history of the second half of the eighties, its intelligibility would be given, in most of the narratives, both academic and daily, by the passage from dictatorship to democracy, although there may be considerable differences in the way in which this transition has been conceived and valued (...).