Convergence: Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

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Copyright: 2019
Pages: 27
Source title: Social Partnership and Governance Under Crises
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Carol Nelson (University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8961-7.ch006

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Government & Law / Government and Law / Public & Sector Management

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Actor network theory as the “sociology of translation,” is used as a lens to examine the chronology of the development of the MOU Agreement, which provides insight into the mechanics of its formation and network of relations. Translation uncovered dimensions of the network's development: why associations between the actors were created, the factors that mobilized these heterogeneous parties to come together. Further, it also uncovered how their functions were ascribed and how stability or “black box” status was achieved. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is positioned as a moment in ANT facilitating the analyses of the network linkages of the MOU actor network assist to identify the interactions at various levels of the MOU social partnership actor network. The two worldviews complement each other within an interpretivist framework revealing the potential to analyse network interactions through the lens of discourse.

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