Co-Production Analysis
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.
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Sources
- Jasanoff, S. (Ed.). (2004). States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order. Routledge. ISBN: 9780415403290
- Jasanoff, S. (2004). Ordering knowledge, ordering society. In S. Jasanoff (Ed.), States of Knowledge (pp. 13-45). Routledge. ISBN: 9780415403290
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Co-Production Analysis (Idiom of Co-Production in STS). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/science-technology-studies/co-production-sts-analysis
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