ABSTRACT
Legal pluralism is the study of other legalities and subsequently legal theories. This is why the author turns to theories of legal pluralism and explores their potential in seeing through the task of decentring the law without giving up on the possibility of all transcontextual normative meaning. The taxonomy of theories of legal pluralism is based mainly on their methodological choices and it aims simply at mapping the territory. At first sight, this way of understanding the law and thus setting the agenda of legal pluralism is a much more promising path to take, not least because it seems more consistent with the very aims of the research programme of legal pluralism. This understanding of the legal is essentially positivistic to the extent that it focuses on demarcation of the law from its environment but, it differs from ordinary positivism in that it leaves it up to legal discourse itself to delineate its boundaries in relation to its environment.
