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	Co-Production Analysis	Actor-Network Theory Analysis
Field	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2004	1984
Originator	Sheila Jasanoff	Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, John Law
Type	Interpretive analytic framework (idiom) in science and technology studies	Material-semiotic theory and analytic method
Seminal source	Jasanoff, S. (Ed.). (2004). States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order. Routledge. ISBN: 9780415403290	Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199256051
Aliases	Co-production idiom, Co-productionist analysis, Knowledge and social order analysis	ANT analysis, Sociology of translation, Actant-network mapping
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Summary	Co-production analysis applies the 'idiom of co-production' developed by Sheila Jasanoff: the claim that the ways we know the world are inseparable from the ways we choose to live in it. Scientific knowledge and social order are not produced in separate spheres that later interact; they are produced together. Co-production analysis traces this simultaneous making of natural and social facts—how a new way of knowing nature is bound up with new identities, institutions, discourses, and representations that together stabilise both knowledge and political order.	Actor-Network Theory analysis treats society and technology as a single woven fabric, mapping how heterogeneous human and non-human actors—engineers, scallops, documents, machines, regulators—are linked into networks through a process of translation. Rather than explaining technical outcomes by appeal to pre-given social categories, ANT follows the actors themselves and describes how durable arrangements are assembled, stabilised, and sometimes undone.