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To what extent has development theory depended on notions of superiority? '...and when a superior race, with a superior idea of work and order, advances, its state will be progressive' Disraeli in Tancred; or the new crusade (1881) in Crang (1998:67) Superiority is all about power. Undercutting it, using it and reproducing it. This ability to do work can have various contexts, but perhaps the most interesting one (in relation to this essay) concerns knowledge1. Relating this use of power to how development theory processes its ideas reveals where these ideas come from, what they have accomplished and what they may produce. The West's influence on these ideas has been vast, but to problemitize the argument, the West itself has not always constituted its present areal extent from Europe to North America, Australia and New Zealand. At the turn of the 16th century the West, as Europe alone, discovered 'itself' as well...

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