Abstract
Social movement organisations (SMOs) remain under-examined in the burgeoning accounts of collective memory’s transnational movements. There is also an analytical neglect of the difficulties of making memories move and the constraints characterising emergent political fields enabled by the entanglement of remembering and digital media. Bisht addresses this neglected dimension through an examination of SMOs working for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in India. The chapter focuses specifically on how SMO websites were mobilised for the development of a transnationally framed memory narrative of the disaster and the territorialisation of this online narrative in two specific ‘local’ contexts: Bhopal and London. Building upon Chadwick’s (The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013) framework of the ‘hybrid media system’, the chapter demonstrates the value of ‘hybridity’ as an analytical lens to examine the specific contexts and complexities of SMO memory work: combining online and offline strategies, communicating within the movement and to wider publics, and balancing local and transnational aims.
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