In this article, we challenge the hegemony of western science fiction, arguing that western science fiction is particular even as it claims universality. Its view remains based on ideas of the future as forward time. In contrast, in non-western science fiction the future is seen outside linear terms: as cyclical or spiral, or in terms of ancestors. In addition, western science fiction has focus...

For many years, the ISJ has been included within quaintly named “basket” of eight (Bo8) premier journals, an endeavour Association for Information Systems' (AIS) College Senior Scholars (CSS)1 to single out top journals in field Systems (IS). At its 2019 meeting Munich, concerns were expressed that Bo8's editorial boards insufficiently diverse and as a result CSS commissioned task force investi...

This article examines the changing uses of political rhetoric around the burial of Julius Nyerere in 1999. It argues that the ruling party uses rhetoric as a means of ‘soft power’, but also documents how this rhetoric, though geared towards legitimizing Nyerere’s successors, employed tropes that were rejected by some people and were used by others to critique leaders who were perceived to lack ...

printing supported by . Visit Chiesi at Stand B2.10 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH 2012 P3594 The diagnostic yield and safety of fine needle aspiration of intrathoracic hydatid cysts: A three year retrospective study Obianuju B. Ozoh1,2, Coenraad F.N. Koegelenberg1, Raquel Brauns1, Elvis M. Irusen1, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier1 , Colleen A. Wright3, Mercia Louw3, Pawel T. Schubert3 , Chris T. Bolli...