Abstract

In this text we intend to establish the relationship between the concepts of social memory and social imaginaries through the analytical categories of experience space and expectation horizon. This implies thinking of memory from the tensions of the present as a political dispute and a struggle for the narratives of the past, which are inserted within the networks of meanings and meanings present in the instituted and instituting social imaginaries. To this articulation we add the notions of space of experience and the horizon of expectation, since they enable us to think about the existence of as many pasts as subjects, rather than in a great story and in a single story about what happened. By raising this relationship, we propose analytical prospects that focus their work on the tensions on the institutional processes of both memories and the networks of meanings that enunciate them.