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Environmental ethics in trading & advertising are explored via an analysis of British companies, eg, the Body Shop, that promote their views on corporate responsibility for financial gain. Developments in GB's fair trade movement are discussed, highlighting the importation of Brazilian mahogany (for largely frivolous reasons) in relation to environmentally sound trading practices. It is suggested that the free trade movement -- with its willingness to confront the dirty politics of consumption -- could potentially do more to save the environment than the Green movement itself. W. Howard

A comprehensive and detailed survey of the personalities and various groupings and organisations that share the criticism of the 1983 September laws, the introduction of sharia. Whereas the National Islamic Front and the Muslim Brothers call for modifying the sharia, the Umma Party, the Nationalist Union Party, the Republican Brothers, the National Alliance for the Salvation of the Country as well as the Catholic Church call for their abolition. The article sheds light on the fact that the sharia, as introduced under Nimeiri, was also criticised on Islamic grounds. (DÜI-Asd)

Drawing upon Peter Ives' book, Gramsci's Politics of Language, this article examines the linguistic origins of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. This is then compared with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the habitus, with a particular focus on how the two theories conceptualize social change. Ives shows that Gramsci understood language standardization as either democratic or repressive depending on the nature of the standardization process. Ives uses this to argue that the opposite of repressive hegemony is not the absence of hegemony but a progressive hegemony grounded in democratic processes. While Boudieu's emphasis on social reproduction over social change makes his work less useful for conceptualizing such a progressive hegemony, this paper argues that his theory of symbolic capital (including linguistic capital) offers us a unique insight into the obstacles faced by agents of progressive social change and in so doing sheds light on the limitations of Gramsci's approach.