Terrorism and Consumerism: An Analysis of Terrorism Development in Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity based on Paul Riceour’s Critique of Ideology

Aisya Maura, Naupal

2018

Abstract

Globalization is an era that is marked by the ease of interaction and the exchange information all over the world. It encourages people to continue following the movements of the world, as an effort to survive, or what Bauman named it as survival-and-gratification consumerism method. The pattern of consumerism leads to the existence of flawed consumers, namely those who are unable to keep up the global world movement in liquid modernity era. In the midst of liquid modernity, Bauman thought that the presence of terrorism is not possible. Using descriptive analysis and alternative explanation methods, this study found that some of the premises or reasons used by Bauman to support his claims contains logical inconsistencies if traced in fundamentalist ideology. By rectifying some of the inconsistencies found in Bauman’s concept, this study found that terrorism remained undoubtedly in the era of liquid modernity, even showing its still growth as a result of liquid modernity, not as something that was separated from it. In addition, this research also found that terrorism has already become an identity, or what Paul Ricoeur calls as a distortion and a dissimulation of ideology, therefore critique of ideology is needed to overcome this problem.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Maura A. and Naupal. (2018). Terrorism and Consumerism: An Analysis of Terrorism Development in Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity based on Paul Riceour’s Critique of Ideology.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 2076-2084. DOI: 10.5220/0009939420762084

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Aisya Maura and Naupal},
title={Terrorism and Consumerism: An Analysis of Terrorism Development in Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity based on Paul Riceour’s Critique of Ideology},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={2076-2084},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009939420762084},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Terrorism and Consumerism: An Analysis of Terrorism Development in Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity based on Paul Riceour’s Critique of Ideology
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Maura A.
AU - Naupal.
PY - 2018
SP - 2076
EP - 2084
DO - 10.5220/0009939420762084