What is the relationship between human rights and power?
Human rights discourse should concern itself with the way in which the legal ideas and processes of subordinate groups are constrained and shaped by dominant legal frameworks. These approaches maintain that legal pluralism should be understood not as a plurality of separate and bounded cultural systems, but rather as a plurality of continually evolving and interconnected processes entangled in wider power relations. This underlines the need to look at local beliefs and practices within their broader social, political and econ